Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

Goldberger YaakovGoldberger OttóBorn in Kassa (Košice) in 1919Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”Yaakov was a member of the “Maccabi” sports association as a pupil,instructor, manager and gymnast. From 1938 he was among the leadersof his movement. In 1939 Yaakov moved to Budapest. He was enlisted ina forced labor unit in the fall of 1940 and released at the end of 1943. On5.4.1944, after the German invasion, Yaakov was arrested at hisworkplace and sent to the military prison on Margit Boulevard. In July ofthe same year he was released but was mobilized for forced labor.Members of his movement equipped him with forged documents and,with his wife, Miriam, he was smuggled into Romania. Ya'akov andMiriam took with them six children aged 5-6, refugees from Poland, aswell as two young boys aged seventeen from the Carpatho-Rutheniaregion who did not speak Hungarian.In November 1944 he made aliya and is a member of Kibbutz Ha’ogen.Ya'akov was a central figure on the kibbutz and in the Kibbutz Artziinstitutions.Goldfarb NeshkaSzandel ÁgnesBorn in Tiszabogdány (Bohdan) in 1921Died on 1.2.2000 in IsraelMember of “Dror Habonim”Neshka came from a religious Jewish family. Her father was a Hasid anda reader of prayers in the synagogue. She was orphaned at an early age.Although the Hassidic currents were predominant in the village, Zionismwas not banned. Emissaries from Eretz Israel (Palestine), MordehaiCaspi and Shlomo Lipsky, set up a ken of “Hehalutz Hatzair” (which laterbecame “Dror Habonim”) in the village and Neshka, aged fifteen, joinedthe movement. She stayed in hahsharot in preparation for her aliya. In1939 she and her friends in the hahshara were surprised by Hungarianpolicemen and taken to Budapest. In the Hungarian capital they weredetained for four days and then sent back to their village. In 1940 Neshkaleft the family home again and arrived in Budapest where the Zionistyouth movement was already outlawed. Neshka and her friends lived in acommune. In 1941 she met Jewish refugees fromPoland and, from them,Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 109