Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

his wife, Malka Baumøhl. In Kassa he was enlisted in a forced labor unitwhich was sent to the copper mines in Bor, Yugoslavia where heperished probably in 1944. His wife and son Abraham were shot by theGermans in a forest near Kassa.Fogel DovFogel BélaBorn in Nagybocskó (Velikij Bicskiv) on 27.9.1927Member of “Dror Habonim”Dov arrived in Budapest during Passover of 1942. He met Asher Arni andjoined the “Dror Habonim” movement. After the Germans invadedHungary on 19.3.1944, he dug fortifications in the suburbs of Budapest.In the fall of 1944 Asher Arni enlisted him in the underground activities ofthe movement. Dov supplied food and equipment to hiding places andbunkers. After the liberation he took part in finding and taking care oforphaned Jewish children. In 1946 Dov left Hungary and stayed in theCyprus and Atlit (Palestine) camps. At the end of 1947 he arrived inKibbutz Ein Harod within the framework of the “Gárdos” Group. He wasamong the founders of Kibbutz Parod. He wrote a book: “From MyFather’s House to Parod”, 1993.Foltyn EllaFoltyn Elefánt EllaBorn in Lazony (Ložin), on 16.5.1922Died in 2003 Died in USAMember of “Hashomer Hatzair”Ella’s family lived in Varin (Várna) and later in Bazin (Pezinok). Her fatherwas a dentist.In 1942 thanks to her father’s exemption certificate, Ella was saved fromdeportation. In 1944 she fled to Hungary. After the Germans invadedHungary on 19.3.1944, Ella joined the underground and operated mainlyas a liaison in the distribution of forged documents. She worked as aGerman speaking governess for a Bulgarian diplomat.After the fascist Arrow Cross Party came to power on 15.10.1944, Ellaengaged, under the false name of Rapos Mária, in moving Jewishchildren from the Budapest ghetto area to the children’s houses that wereset up under the protection of the International Red Cross and in takingcare of them. Her brother, Moshe Pil-Alpan, was one of the mostprominent underground activists.Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 91