Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

Katz ImreBorn in Nyiregyháza on 17.12.1919Died in Israel in 1973Member of “Hanoar Hatzioni”Imre graduated from high school in Nyiregyháza. He learned to be atailor. Prior to the German occupation, he moved to Budapest. Imreobtained forged documents and joined “Kiska”, an auxiliary unit within theHungarian army. He saved Jews from the ghetto. Imre was an expert inobtaining documents from the office of the Pope’s representative. Heonce gave his comrades in the movement, who operated in theunderground, sixty such documents. After the liberation Imre worked withthe B'riha.Katz MosheKatz JózsefBorn in Csenger in 1923Died on 2.12.2004 in IsraelMember of “Hanoar Hatzioni”In 1939 Moshe joined the movement, graduated the Jewish high schoolin Debrecen and in 1943 he moved to Budapest. Upon the Germanoccupation of Hungary on 19.3.1944, Moshe was enlisted in a forcedlabor unit. In July he escaped thanks to forged documents provided bythe movement and arrived at the Jewish community house in Budapest.In October Moshe stayed in a bunker in Zugló, a suburb of Budapest, andunderwent weapons training. The bunker was discovered and theoccupants, among them Moshe Katz, were caught by Arrow Cross men.He was taken to the Gestapo center in Buda but released thanks toProtection Documents of the Swiss legation. Moshe arrived at the “GlassHouse” on Vadász Street and later at the branch of the Swiss consulateon Wekerle Street. He worked in the food storeroom from which food wasdelivered to the ghetto and children’s houses under the auspices of theZionist youth movements.In 1946 Moshe made aliya. He stayed at Mivtahim and Kibbutz Tze’elim.Later he settled down in Petah-Tikva.Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 145