Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
23 (1993) 173-212
Keywords:
Bnei Akiva
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Youth movements, Jewish
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
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Youth movements, Jewish
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Bnei Akiva was the largest Zionist youth movement in Hungary; in 1939-43 it became stronger due to the influx of refugees from Poland and Slovakia. Nevertheless, it received limited assistance from the Yishuv delegation in Istanbul. The first task of Bnei Akiva was to receive refugees (provide them with forged papers, etc.). Despite the warnings of refugees regarding events in Poland and Slovakia, the Zionists, including Bnei Akiva, were not prepared when the Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944, and they had to reorganize their activities. The Bnei Akiva arranged for clandestine emigration to Romania and Slovakia, prepared shelters, distributed forged papers, money, and food among the ghettoized Jews of Budapest, and even undertook an armed attack on an SS patrol. The movement received assistance from the Swiss consulate in Budapest, which helped to save thousands of Jews. As a religious movement, Bnei Akiva had problems not shared by other youth movements.
Note:
See also in Hebrew.
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Appeared also in "גנזי חיים" (תשפב) 17*-53*
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