Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 1 - CENDO

member of the national leadership of “Bnei Akiva” and active within the
framework of the Joint and UNRRA. Pinhas participated in the 22nd
Zionist Congress in Basel. He married Sarah Stern, a Holocaust survivor
who left Hungary on the train of the Relief and Rescue Committee. He
was appointed as the manager of the Eretz-Israel Office in Geneva. In
Switzerland he founded finance companies as well as a bank. Pinhas
held a senior position in the high institutions of the Zionist movement.
Rosenbaum Shmuel
Rosenbaum Smuel
Born in Kökényes (Ternove) on
25.2.1926 Member of “Dror Habonim”
Shmuel studied in a Czech and a Hungarian school. In 1943 he moved to
Budapest and joined “Hehalutz Hatzair”, the future “Dror Habonim”. He
learned knitting and earned a living from various jobs. In January-
February 1944 Shmuel shared an apartment with his brother, Moshe, and
Tzvi Prizant. Together they planned rescue and resistance operations.
After the Germans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, Shmuel went
underground with forged documents. In June he was enlisted in a forced
labor unit and served in Dés. In August Shmuel and a group of comrades
had the opportunity to escape and reach Budapest with forged
documents brought to them by a member of the movement, Pál Ernø.
However, the group decided not to run away because the Red Army was
approaching and they hoped to be liberated. Shmuel was taken prisoner
by Romanian soldiers, taken to Alba-Julia (Gyulafehérvár) but liberated
with his friends by the local Jews. He arrived in Italy, enlisted in the
Palmah and did military training.
In 1947 Shmuel made aliya and joined Kibbutz Givat Brenner. He resides
in Ramat-Gan.
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