Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

he was incarcerated in the prisoners’ camp for Hungarian and Germansoldiers. He managed to escape and arrived in a hahshara. In 1946Yitzhak made aliya and joined Kibbutz Yassur. He left the kibbutz andmoved to Kiriyat Tivon.Sternberg Yonatan ZvulonBorn in 1880Died in 1945 in SwitzerlandMember of “Mizrahi”Yonatan was among the founders and leaders of his movement. In 1935he made aliya, stayed in Eretz Israel (Palestine) for fourteen months. Dueto the events he lost his capital and returned to Hungary. During the warYonatan supported the underground activities. The Belz Rabbi, AharonRokah, and his assistants, were smuggled out of the ghetto near Cracovin Poland and, at the end of 1943, to Hungary by Hungarian officers.Moshe Shapira, head of the aliya department in the Jewish Agency (andthe representative of "Mizrahi") in Jerusalem ordered Moshe Krausz,head of the Eretz-Israel Office in Budapest, to add the Belz Rabbi and hisassistants to the list of olim as part of the quota for ‘senior Zionists’. Andindeed the rabbi left Hungary on 18.1.1944 with a legal group of olim witha certificate in place of Yonatan Zvulon Sternberg and his family whowere at the top of the list of senior Zionists. In June 1944 Yonatan leftHungary on the train of the Relief and Rescue Committee but died uponhis arrival in Switzerland.Sternberg Margit GitlBorn in 1888Died in 1975 in IsraelMember of "Mizrahi"Margit was active in the movement from 1908 and was among thefounders of the "Mizrahi" women in Hungary. In 1923 and 1939 shevisited Eretz Israel (Palestine) in order to prepare her family’s aliya butthe war put an end to the plans. Margit took part in the activities of herhusband, Yonatan Zvulon Sternberg. She left Hungary on the train of theRelief and Rescue Committee. Her husband died upon their arrival inSwitzerland. Margit made aliya and settled down in Jerusalem.Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 231