Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

activities of the movement. At the beginning of 1944 he was sent toDebrecen to operate the local ken and to organize self-defense. On theday the Germans invaded Hungary, on 19.3.1944, he was staying inBudapest. Following the instructions from the movement’s leadership, heobtained for himself authentic Christian documents from the PopulationRegistry. Yeshayahu and his brother, Haim, wearing “Levente” uniforms,traveled in order to release their parents and two sisters from theNyirbátor ghetto and bring them to Budapest. Their parents and sistersrefused to go with them and were deported to Auschwitz.Yeshayahu was meant to leave Hungary within the framework of the tiyulbut in the end he left on the train of the Relief and Rescue Committeeand on 7.12.1944 he arrived in Switzerland. In September 1945 he madealiya legally and joined Kibbutz Negba. Later he settled down in Holon.Fischer AvriBorn in Pozsony (Bratislava) in 1924Perished in Auschwitz in 1944Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”Avri was an instructor in the Budapest ken from 1942. After the Germansinvaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, he engaged in finding hiding places.Together with Dan Zimmerman and Yitzhak Herbst-Mimish he forgeddocuments on a large scale and distributed them. He was caught anddeported to Auschwitz where he perished.Fischer ErnstFischer ErnőBorn in Endrőd in 1924Died on 6.6.2000 in IsraelMember of “Hanoar Hatzioni”In 1939, due to the family’s difficult economic situation, Ernst was sent toBudapest to learn the goldsmith’s craft in the hostel for apprentices. On15.5.1944 he was enlisted in a forced labor unit. After some time heescaped from the camp, arrived in Budapest and joined his movement’sunderground activities. Carrying forged documents, he joined theauxiliary unit of the Hungarian army “Kiska” for the defense of Budapestand was given a weapon. When the suspicion arose that thereBrothers for Resistance and Rescue 87