Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

Avidor YardenaPolák GizellaBorn in Budapest, in 1925Member of “Hanoar Hatzioni”Yardena obtained various Aryan documents, mainly by using thePopulation Registry offices. She visited the offices pretending to look forfictitious names and from the list she was given she wrote down names ofreal Aryans. Later, a member of the movement (in most cases, a youngwoman) came into the office and asked for a copy of an authenticdocument, bearing one of the names taken from the list.Yardena fled to Romania. From there she made aliya.Bakos AndorBerger Andor 'Bicege'Born in Budapest on 25.5.1923Died in 1988 in BudapestMember of “Hashomer Hatzair”Andor was an intellectual. He studied mathematics and physics atuniversity in Budapest but was forced to interrupt his studies due to theanti-Jew laws. He joined the movement at the age of seventeen. Hisinstructor was Arie Ya’ari Hunwald. After the German invasion of Hungaryon 19.3.1944, Andor took part in the underground operations of themovement and was sent on various missions. After the liberation, in 1947he left the movement and joined the Hungarian communist party. Andorfinished his studies as a construction engineer and took part in thebuilding of the underground train in Budapest.Dr. Balázs Alice TovaEdinger AliceBorn on 28.8.1928 in BudapestDied on 20.3.1999 in BudapestMember of “Hanoar Hatzioni”In 1944 Tova moved from the Yellow Star House where she lived inBudapest to the “Glass House’ on Vadász Street. She adopted theidentity of a refugee, Erzsébet Csovsky, who arrived from Transylvania,joined the underground operations and distributed forged documents.LaterBrothers for Resistance and Rescue 47