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Arbel Yitzhak 'Bukszi'
Baumöhl István 'Bukszi'
Born in Csajág on 9.9.1925
Member of “Hanoar Hatzioni”
In May 1944 Yitzhak was enlisted in a forced labor unit. In September the
unit was transferred to Budapest and he contacted members of the
movement who were underground activists.
Yitzhak escaped from the labor unit and arrived at the “Glass House” on
Vadász Street. He joined a unit called “Personal Sacrifice” under the
leadership of Alexander Nathan. This unit’s role was to protect the house
from the Arrow Cross hooligans. Each member of the unit had his own
personal firearm. In the end though there was no need for any armed
confrontation. Within the framework of the movement Yitzhak helped
organize groups of Jewish orphaned children and took care of them.
Even after the liberation in January 1945 Yitzhak continued to work with
the children until 1948 and brought them to Israel. He served as the
general secretary of the movement.
Yitzhak made aliya within the framework of a group of volunteers in the
Haganah. He is a member of Kibbutz Cabri.
Arieli Zehava
Wertheimer Ágnes
Born in Pozsony (Bratislava) on 19.12.1925
Member of “Beitar”
Zehava joined the “Beitar” movement in Nitra in 1941 after having been
expelled from Bratislava. In 1942 she was faced with deportation to
Auschwitz but Count Eszterházy, the representative of the Hungarian
minority in the Slovak Parliament and a friend of the family, helped her to
hide for months and later smuggled her into Budapest.
After the Germans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, Zehava worked with
the underground mainly distributing forged documents and making
contact with the underground activists.
In June 1944 she travelled to Kassa to give forged documents to
comrades. In Budapest Zehava was caught twice by the Germans,
tortured by the Gestapo but managed to escape. She stayed in hiding
places and in bunkers on Hungary Boulevard and in the Budapest
Institute of Technology where there was a one and a half meter high
bunker between the ceiling of the second storey and the floor of the third
storey.
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