Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

immigrants from the ships to the shore. He fought in various places in theNorth. He fell in the “Yehiam Convoy” on 27.3.1948 with 46 of his friendsas a soldier in battalion 21 of the Carmeli brigade.Fürszt-Komoly LeaBorn in Veröce (Viroticia) in 1921Died on 7.12.2006 in IsraelMember of “Maccabea” and “Hatzionim Haclali’im”Lea’s family returned to Budapest in 1924. Her father, Nathan Komoly,was the president of the Hungarian Zionist Association from 1940 to1944, and from 1943 he was the chairman of the Relief and RescueCommittee. Lea took part in underground help activities from the buildingof the Jewish community on 12, Síp Street. She was sent on behalf of herfather on missions with government authorities and foreign legations. Leadistributed the “Auschwitz Report”, that was translated into variouslanguages, and which she translated into Hungarian in cooperation withSarah Friedlander, including testimonies of what was happening in theextermination camp. Lea left Hungary on the train of the Relief andRescue Committee and arrived in Switzerland. She made aliya in 1946and married the engineer Fürszt. She worked as a librarian at the Tel-Aviv University and at “Beit Ariella”. Lea resides in Tel-Aviv.Futó-Galambos SándorGoldstein SándorBorn in Debrecen in 1909Died in 1963 in HungaryCommunistIn 1929 Sándor arrived in Antwerpen, Belgium, on his way to South-America as an emigrant. He remained in Antwerpen and made contactwith the local workers’ movement. In 1931 he was accepted in theHungarian section of the communist party in Antwerpen. Sándor wasarrested, imprisoned for a year and deported to Paris. In 1935 hereturned to Belgium, was arrested and sent back to Hungary. Although hewas under police surveillance, he was active in the trade unions and amember of the social-democrat party. In 1936 he organized volunteers forthe civil war in Spain and operated in the industrial suburbs of the capital.After the Germans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, Sándor served as theliaison between the central committee of the underground communistparty and the “Hashomer Hatzair” movement. These connections led tocooperation in the supply of forged documents from the “HashomerHatzair” side, and the finding of shelters for young Jews from the otherBrothers for Resistance and Rescue 101