Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 1 - CENDO

members of the movement from country towns to the capital city. In the
summer of 1944, with a group of friends, she tried to cross the border into
Romania within the framework of the tiyul. They were all caught. All her
friends’ efforts to release them failed. Yoheved was deported to
Auschwitz where she perished.
Baron Miriam
Stern
Born in Kolozsvár (Cluj) on 6.6.1924
Member of “Dror Habonim”
Miriam arrived in Budapest in 1941. She stayed at an illegal hahshara of
“Habonim” (which later became “Dror Habonim”). She smuggled
refugees, members of the youth movements and other Jews to Romania
within the framework of the tiyul. Miriam acted under various false names.
She was arrested but released. At the end of 1944 she arrived in Eretz
Israel (Palestine). Miriam was one of the first members of Kibbutz “Ein
Zetim”.
Dr. Bar-Tzvi Moshe
Schweiger Miklós
Born in Zenta (Senta) on 29.11.1905
Died on 13.8.1963 in Israel
Member of “Ihud Mapa’i”
Moshe was the son of the Orthodox Rabbi in his town. He studied law in
Zagreb and was head of the Jewish Academics Union, “Judea”. After
graduating he opened a law firm. He was known as a brilliant orator in
Hungarian, German and Serbo-Croatian.
After the Vojvodina area was occupied by the Hungarians in April 1941,
Moshe fled to Budapest and made contact with Joel Brand and his circle.
He was appointed by the representatives of the Jewish Yishuv who
operated in Istanbul as head of the “Committee for Defense” of the
Zionist youth movements in Budapest. However, the representatives of
the youth movements chose Moshe Rosenberg over him.
After the German invasion of Hungary on 19.3.1944, Moshe was arrested
by the German security forces who claimed he was Stalin’s brother-in-
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