Jewish youth leaders, who are now in their 90s, fought to save other Jewish people during the Holocaust, but their story is often overlooked.
Friday marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Poland.Just before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Jewish youth leaders in the eastern European country jumped into action: They formed an underground network that in the coming months would save tens of thousands of fellow Jews from the gas chambers.
Israel, which was established as a refuge for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust, has gone to great lengths over the years to recognize thousands of "Righteous Among the Nations" - non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Gur said he and his colleagues knew that disaster was looming when three Jewish women arrived at Budapest's main synagogue in the fall of 1943. They had fled Nazi-occupied Poland and bore disturbing news about people being shipped off to concentration camps.
The forged papers were used by Jewish youth movements to operate a smuggling network and run Red Cross houses that saved thousands from the Nazis and their allies.
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