Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

papers. Hadasa stayed in the town of Gyöngyös where she took care ofchildren and among them the grandchildren (who were half Jewish) ofÁrpád Szakasits, one of the leaders of the Hungarian Social-DemocratParty. Hadasa returned to Budapest posing as a refugee, was caught andtaken to the Arrow Cross Party headquarters but managed to escape.Hadasa arrived in the ghetto and then at the “Glass House” on VadászStreet where she operated within the framework of her movement. Afterthe liberation she escorted a large group of Jewish children to Debrecenfor their rehabilitation. Hadasa made aliya in 1945. She took part in thehahshara in Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan. From 1949 she worked as akindergarten teacher. In 1952 she got married to Dr. Yitzhak Hantos, whowas born in Budapest and is now a retired judge. They reside in KiryatOno.Harari YehudaWertheimer ErnőBorn in Debrecen on 24.1.1922Died on 21.10.1996 in IsraelMember of “Hashomer Hatzair”In the years 1941 and 1942 Yehuda lived in a “Hashomer Hatzair”commune in Budapest. In 1943 he was enlisted in a forced labor unit. InOctober 1944 he escaped with sixteen of his friends thanks to forgeddocuments supplied by the movement and at once joined theunderground activities in the “Glass House”.Yehuda made aliya in 1945 and was a member of Kibbutz Yehiam.Harari YisraelHochhauser ZoltánBorn in Kassa (Košice) in 1921Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”Yisrael lived in Budapest from 1941. He was sent by the movement tocountry towns on an information mission in order to warn the Jews ofwhat to expect from the Germans and the Hungarian fascists. The familyhouse in Kassa served as a refuge, a meeting place and a station for allthe passing refugees, members of the movement, who moved fromSlovakia to Hungary. In March 1944 Yisrael received mobilization ordersfor forced labor in a unit that was about to leave for the Ukrainian front.He disobeyed the order and succeeded in crossing the border intoRomania. From there he continued his journey to Eretz Israel (Palestine).Yisrael was the first of all the Zionist youth movements’ members to slipacross the border and, thereby, opened the season of the tiyulim toRomania.He is a member of Kibbutz Ein Dor.Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 129