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he was incarcerated in the prisoners’ camp for Hungarian and German
soldiers. He managed to escape and arrived in a hahshara. In 1946
Yitzhak made aliya and joined Kibbutz Yassur. He left the kibbutz and
moved to Kiriyat Tivon.
Sternberg Yonatan Zvulon
Born in 1880
Died in 1945 in Switzerland
Member of “Mizrahi”
Yonatan was among the founders and leaders of his movement. In 1935
he made aliya, stayed in Eretz Israel (Palestine) for fourteen months. Due
to the events he lost his capital and returned to Hungary. During the war
Yonatan supported the underground activities. The Belz Rabbi, Aharon
Rokah, and his assistants, were smuggled out of the ghetto near Cracov
in Poland and, at the end of 1943, to Hungary by Hungarian officers.
Moshe Shapira, head of the aliya department in the Jewish Agency (and
the representative of "Mizrahi") in Jerusalem ordered Moshe Krausz,
head of the Eretz-Israel Office in Budapest, to add the Belz Rabbi and his
assistants to the list of olim as part of the quota for ‘senior Zionists’. And
indeed the rabbi left Hungary on 18.1.1944 with a legal group of olim with
a certificate in place of Yonatan Zvulon Sternberg and his family who
were at the top of the list of senior Zionists. In June 1944 Yonatan left
Hungary on the train of the Relief and Rescue Committee but died upon
his arrival in Switzerland.
Sternberg Margit Gitl
Born in 1888
Died in 1975 in Israel
Member of "Mizrahi"
Margit was active in the movement from 1908 and was among the
founders of the "Mizrahi" women in Hungary. In 1923 and 1939 she
visited Eretz Israel (Palestine) in order to prepare her family’s aliya but
the war put an end to the plans. Margit took part in the activities of her
husband, Yonatan Zvulon Sternberg. She left Hungary on the train of the
Relief and Rescue Committee. Her husband died upon their arrival in
Switzerland. Margit made aliya and settled down in Jerusalem.
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