Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

Atsmoni RuthReich EditBorn in Rákospalota on 27.8.1926Member of “Dror Habonim”Ruth studied at the Jewish high school in Budapest. In 1940 she joinedthe movement. She gave assistance to refugees, members of hermovement, who arrived in Budapest from Slovakia, Poland and theCarpatho-Ruthenia region. Ruth obtained authentic documents from thePopulation Registry offices and distributed them. She left Hungary on thetrain of the Relief and Rescue Committee.Ruth made aliya and joined the garin in Kvutzat Kinneret. In 1946 sheand her comrades moved to Ein Zeitim. She resides in Nahariya.Atzmoni Joseph 'Dagi'Schwartz JózsefBorn in Budapest in 1923Died on 4.10.1968 in a road accidentMember of “Dror Habonim”In 1919, during the short rule of Béla Kún, Joseph’s father was a memberof the Supreme “Soviet”. At a young age Joseph joined the “Dror”movement and was active in the fields of culture and scouting. He wassent to country towns in order to enlist new members to the movement.After the Germans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, Joseph was enlistedin a forced labor unit. After a short period of time he escaped andintegrated the underground work. He was sent to Romania within theframework of the tiyul but was caught and incarcerated in the Kistarcsadetention camp. Joseph escaped from the camp by hiding in a dirtylaundry cart. He returned to Budapest and the underground activities andhid in the bunker on Hungary Boulevard. In the middle of December thebunker was discovered and its occupants were taken to the prison onMargit Boulevard where Joseph was interrogated, tortured but eventuallyliberated with a group of friends in a daring operation of undergroundactivists of the Zionist youth movements, on 25.12.1944.After the liberation, he gave assistance to orphaned Jewish children inthe children’s houses and dealt with aliya. In 1949 he made aliya himselfand joined Kibbutz Parod. He was a youth educator and active with theleftwing movements, the “Sneh” group and the Israeli Communist Party.He had to leave his kibbutz and moved to Holon with his family.Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 46