Moshe was a certified rabbi and had a doctorate. He joined the “Maccabea” movement and later “Barissia”. He worked as a teacher at the Jewish high school in Budapest but was fired because of his Zionist activities.
After the Germans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, Moshe participated in various underground activities. He took part in setting up the bunker on Zöldmáli Street. He distributed Swiss Protection Documents. Moshe was the representative of “Hanoar Hatzioni” in the plan to print 7,800 certificates in cooperation with Moshe Krausz.
After the liberation of Budapest by the Red Army (18.1.1945), Moshe engaged in collecting Jewish children and taking care of them. From 1945 to 1949 he was active in the framework of “Hashomer Hatzair” as an educator and also as the manager of a children’s house. He was in charge of the pedagogical section of the children’s department of the Joint in Hungary.
Moshe made aliya illegally from Hungary. In 1950 he arrived in Israel with his wife Miriam and their two children. He stayed in Kibbutz Haogen for fourteen months. In Israel he was a teacher, an educator and a schoolmaster.
