Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

Vadász Street. He was one of the diggers of the bunker in Érdliget. Hemoved escapees from labor units and children from the ghetto to theProtected Houses under the auspices of the International Red Cross.From November 1944 he transported food from the warehouse onWekerle Street to Jews hiding in various places and to the children’shouses.Shlomo made aliya and joined Kibbutz Metzuba where he died.Cohen ShlomoKohn SalamonBorn on 30.11.1921Member of “Dror Habonim”In 1937 Shlomo joined “Hehalutz Hatzair” and later “Dror”. In 1939 hewas sent by the movement to a hahshara in Budapest. In 1942 he wasenlisted in a forced labor unit. In March 1944 Shlomo escaped andreturned to Budapest. He was sent by Tzvi Goldfarb to Carpatho-Ruthenia to warn and save Jews. From June 1944 he worked with thetiyul. On one of the trips to the border, Shlomo felt he was being followedand decided not to return to Budapest but to cross the border intoRomania. Shlomo made aliya. He is a member of Kibbutz Parod.Demény PálBorn in Budapest on 29.8.1901Died in Budapest on 14.1.1991Member of the Communist PartyDemény Pál was a writer and a politician. He was member of theHungarian Communist Party from 1919. He was the editor of the firstunderground newspaper. Demény Pál was arrested several times by theHungarian Police. The prosecution demanded he be sentenced to deathbut the court only condemned him to imprisonment. Demény Pál wasamong the founders of the new communist movement that stood forindependence from Moscow. In 1944, after the German occupation, thevarious factions of the Communist Party united, planned a civil revolt andarmed rebellion in Budapest. Demény cooperated with the members of“Hashomer Hatzair” who provided him with forged documents fordeserters from the army and those who were being persecuted mainly forpolitical reasons. Demény helped the Zionist underground in findinghiding places, food and weapons.After the liberation of Budapest, in February 1945, Pál was arrested bythe pro-Soviet government on charges of allegedly being an informer forBrothers for Resistance and Rescue 72