Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

Hadas ShoshannaMorvai (after her marriage: Vadász) ZsuzsaBorn in Makó on 17.10.1922Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”Shoshanna joined the movement in her hometown in 1929. Shegraduated from high school in 1940 and travelled to Budapest. In 1941she stayed in a hahshara. In 1942 Shoshanna gave assistance torefugees, comrades from the movement that arrived from Slovakia. Incunning ways she obtained authentic documents for them. Shoshannawas active in the hostel for youngsters on Zöldmáli Street where youngrefugees also found refuge. After the German invasion of Hungary on19.3.1944, upon her parents’ request, she travelled to see them but wascaught, arrested and taken to the Strasshof camp and from there toTheresienstadt. After the war Shoshanna returned to Budapest andworked in a children’s boarding school where Jewish children, who duringthe war had found refuge with Christian families or in convents, weregathered. Shoshanna made aliya in 1950 with her husband Miklós andher son Gabriel.Hakohen HillelBorn in Komárom (Komárno) on 2.5.1925Died in Israel in 2003Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”Hillel joined the movement in 1936 and in 1942 he moved to Budapest.After the Germans occupied Hungary on 19.3.1944, he and another threecomrades were sent to South Transylvania in order to open a new routefor the tiyul to Romania in the direction of the city of Brassó (Brašov)beyond the Hungarian border. They were all caught. Hillel wastransferred to Debrecen and put into a wagon whose destination wasAuschwitz. When the train reached Slovakia, he and some of his friendsmanaged to escape by jumping off the train. Hillel reached the town ofEperjes (Prešov), made contact with comrades from his movement andtraveled to Bratislava. Ten of Hillel’s comrades who escaped with himwere caught and executed.In August 1944 the Germans entered Slovakia in order to crush therebellion that erupted in the Banská Bystrica area. Hillel Hakohen joinedthe partisans and, with the outbreak of the Slovak uprising, fought withthe paratroopers who arrived from Eretz Israel (Palestine) and amongthem Haviva Reick.Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 126