Brothers For Resistance And Rescue By David Gur

After the liberation in January 1945, Ella travelled to Slovakia on amission for the movement as a clerk of the new Slovak government. InKassa (Košice) she took care of Jews who returned from concentrationcamps. From April of the same year she operated in Pozsony (Bratislava)assisting refugees. Ella made aliya in 1949. In 1952 she married AndrewFoltyn and emigrated to the USA.Foren Ya’akovFried JancsuBorn in Nagyszőllős (Vinohragyiv) on 27.5.1924Died on 16.11.1999 in IsraelMember of “Hashomer Hatzair”Ya’akov became a member of the movement in the late 1930’s. After theGermans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, he set up a hiding place in histown’s ghetto where he hid for three months. When he left his hidingplace, he was caught, moved to Beregszász (Berehove) and then to theMosonyi prison in Budapest. He was freed and arrived in the “GlassHouse”. Ya’akov joined the underground activities and distributed forgeddocuments. After the liberation he was sent to Transylvania in order torehabilitate the movement.Ya’akov made aliya and joined Kibbutz Ga’aton.Förster Vera DrFörster Vera-MiriamBorn on 14.04.1924 in BudapestMember of Hanoar HatzioniA member of "Hanoar Hatzioni" from her youth, in 1941 Vera joined hermovement's "hahshara". After the Germans invaded Hungary (19.3.1944)she moved to a hiding place in the district of Zugló, from which shedistributed forged Aryan papers.That hiding place was discovered. Sigfrid Roth and Leon Blatt, theleaders of Hanoar Hatzioni were in charge of that underground activity.Vera and her comerades were taken by the Gestapo to Svábhegy forinterrogation. Vera was deported to Auschwitz and from there to otherconcentration camps, but survived. Upon her return to Hungary, sherestored her life and studied in a Budapest university philosophy andpsychology. In 1956 Vera moved from Hungary to England, where sheworked as a psychologist in a hospital and as a lecturer in the Universityof Leicester.At present Vera lives in England.Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 92