Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 1 - CENDO

Langer Miklós 'Miki'
Born in Poprad in 1923
Murdered in 1944
Friend of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Miki worked as a draftsman-planner in Budapest. He forged documents.
Miki came up with original inventions and was very resourceful. On
21.12.1944 he was staying with David Gur and “Feigi” (Feigenbaum
Endre – Fábry Andrej) in the forgery laboratory in an apartment on the
first floor of 13, Erzsébet Street in Budapest when it was discovered by
chance by Hungarian detectives who were looking for Jews in hiding. The
three men were taken to the fascist Arrow Cross district headquarters
which were located nearby. The suitcases with the seals, the empty
forms and the finished forged documents were also taken away. The
prisoners managed to swallow the notes and documents with their
addresses. Miki and his friends were interrogated, brutally tortured and
cruelly beaten. Miki Langer could not put up with the torture and beatings
and, the day after he was caught, on December 22 nd , he died. His two
friends were taken to the central military prison on Margit Boulevard and
were set free in a daring operation by the Zionist youth movements
underground.
Lantos Yeshayahu
Born on 14.2.1926
Member of “Bnei Akiva”
Yeshayahu was an underground activist. He was a prisoner in the Kistarcsa
camp. He stayed and worked in the “Glass House”. From 1945 Yeshayahu
lived in Hungary and Transylvania.
He made aliya in 1946 and worked as a high school teacher.
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