Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

Weiner ZoltánBorn on 6.1.1904 in GyőrDied in 1962 in HungaryMember of the “Gordon Circle”In the years 1942 and 1943 Zoltán and his wife assisted refugees,members of “Hashomer Hatzair”, who arrived in Hungary from Slovakia.In 1944 they made contact with underground activists of the movement,Rafi Friedl-Benshalom, Ephra Teichman-Agmon, Moshe Pil-Alpan,Yehuda Weisz and Yitzhak Herbst-Mimish.Zoltán was active in the branch of the International Red Cross on MérlegStreet in the financial department and the children’s department. Hemaintained contact with the communist underground, especially with theDemény Group which held meetings in his house.After the liberation he worked for the Joint. Later he went into the furbusiness. During the communist regime he was the manager of theNational Fur Factory (Pannónia).Weiszkopf MosheWeiszkopf ErnőBorn in Budapest in 1922Died on 7.8.1986 in IsraelMember of “Bnei Akiva”After the German invasion of Hungary on 19.3.1944, Moshe equippedhimself with Aryan documents under the name of Horák Pál. He himselfforged documents. Moshe went to Miskolc in order to distributedocuments among the Jews there. He returned to Budapest where healso distributed forged documents. He transferred grenades, ammunition,information and documents. He was active in “Department A”, thechildren’s department, on Wekerle Street under the auspices of theInternational Red Cross. He delivered food to the children’s houses in atruck and gathered Jewish orphans mainly from the ghetto.Part of the time he operated while wearing the uniform of the Arrow CrossParty. During one of his missions he was caught but managed to escapein a cunning way.After the liberation he obtained food for orphaned Jewish children. InIsrael he owned an office for the planning of electricity works.Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 246