Hungary, Members of the Bnei Akiva youth movement and the Zionist Underground.

With the german occupation in Hungary, the Zionist Youth Movements in Budapest decided to go underground and pursue every possible avenue to save jews. the underground smuggled 7,000-10,000 Jews into Romania ("the Hike") untill the border became a front in August 1944. it set up a workshop for forging documents, which were also to release jews from labor battalions and death marches to Austria. about 10,000 protective passes "Schutzpasses", were made by the underground and distributed among jews in Budapest. after the rise to power of the Arow Cross in October 1944 and the renewal of the murders, the underground acquired 52 children's homes, supposebly under Red Cross auspices. about 6,000 children and instructors lived there until the liberation. from October 1944 to January 1945 the youth movements were, in effect, the alternative leadership.