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Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

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members of the movement from country towns to the capital city. In thesummer of 1944, with a group of friends, she tried to cross the border intoRomania within the framework of the tiyul. They were all caught. All herfriends’ efforts to release them failed. Yoheved was deported toAuschwitz where she perished.Baron MiriamSternBorn in Kolozsvár (Cluj) on 6.6.1924Member of “Dror Habonim”Miriam arrived in Budapest in 1941. She stayed at an illegal hahshara of“Habonim” (which later became “Dror Habonim”). She smuggledrefugees, members of the youth movements and other Jews to Romaniawithin the framework of the tiyul. Miriam acted under various false names.She was arrested but released. At the end of 1944 she arrived in EretzIsrael (Palestine). Miriam was one of the first members of Kibbutz “EinZetim”.Dr. Bar-Tzvi MosheSchweiger MiklósBorn in Zenta (Senta) on 29.11.1905Died on 13.8.1963 in IsraelMember of “Ihud Mapa’i”Moshe was the son of the Orthodox Rabbi in his town. He studied law inZagreb and was head of the Jewish Academics Union, “Judea”. Aftergraduating he opened a law firm. He was known as a brilliant orator inHungarian, German and Serbo-Croatian.After the Vojvodina area was occupied by the Hungarians in April 1941,Moshe fled to Budapest and made contact with Joel Brand and his circle.He was appointed by the representatives of the Jewish Yishuv whooperated in Istanbul as head of the “Committee for Defense” of theZionist youth movements in Budapest. However, the representatives ofthe youth movements chose Moshe Rosenberg over him.After the German invasion of Hungary on 19.3.1944, Moshe was arrestedby the German security forces who claimed he was Stalin’s brother-in-<strong>Brothers</strong> for <strong>Resistance</strong> and <strong>Rescue</strong> 50

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