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After the liberation in January 1945, Ella travelled to Slovakia on a
mission for the movement as a clerk of the new Slovak government. In
Kassa (Košice) she took care of Jews who returned from concentration
camps. From April of the same year she operated in Pozsony (Bratislava)
assisting refugees. Ella made aliya in 1949. In 1952 she married Andrew
Foltyn and emigrated to the USA.
Foren Ya’akov
Fried Jancsu
Born in Nagyszőllős (Vinohragyiv) on 27.5.1924
Died on 16.11.1999 in Israel
Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Ya’akov became a member of the movement in the late 1930’s. After the
Germans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, he set up a hiding place in his
town’s ghetto where he hid for three months. When he left his hiding
place, he was caught, moved to Beregszász (Berehove) and then to the
Mosonyi prison in Budapest. He was freed and arrived in the “Glass
House”. Ya’akov joined the underground activities and distributed forged
documents. After the liberation he was sent to Transylvania in order to
rehabilitate the movement.
Ya’akov made aliya and joined Kibbutz Ga’aton.
Förster Vera Dr
Förster Vera-Miriam
Born on 14.04.1924 in Budapest
Member of Hanoar Hatzioni
A member of "Hanoar Hatzioni" from her youth, in 1941 Vera joined her
movement's "hahshara". After the Germans invaded Hungary (19.3.1944)
she moved to a hiding place in the district of Zugló, from which she
distributed forged Aryan papers.
That hiding place was discovered. Sigfrid Roth and Leon Blatt, the
leaders of Hanoar Hatzioni were in charge of that underground activity.
Vera and her comerades were taken by the Gestapo to Svábhegy for
interrogation. Vera was deported to Auschwitz and from there to other
concentration camps, but survived. Upon her return to Hungary, she
restored her life and studied in a Budapest university philosophy and
psychology. In 1956 Vera moved from Hungary to England, where she
worked as a psychologist in a hospital and as a lecturer in the University
of Leicester.At present Vera lives in England.
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