Page 6 - Issue 24

Zionist Youth Movements

Rescued 15,000 Hungarian Jews

During the Holocaust

Yet their story remains largely

untold

"Israel did not talk about it at all, because it
did not fit the ethos of heroism"

By David Twersky
Excerpted From Davar - https://en.davar1.co.il

Zionist youth movements rescued 15,000 Hungarian
Jews during the Holocaust, but their story still doesn’t
appear in textbooks. Seventy seven years after the
dramatic events, there is not a single monument in
Israel to their heroism.

Yuval Alpen, the son of Moshe Alpen, one of the leaders
of the rescue program for Hungarian Jewry, is fighting to
change that.

"The younger generation must know the story of the
Jews who saved Jews,” he said.

During the spring and summer of 1944, when the Nazis
invaded Hungary, most of the country's Jews were sent
to Auschwitz. Many others were killed in pogroms led