Chug Chaluzi

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Chug Chaluzi ( Pioneer Circle ) was a religious-Zionist group in Germany in the resistance against National Socialism . It was founded on February 27, 1943 at Bundesallee  79 in the Berlin district of Friedenau by Jizchak Schwersenz and his girlfriend Edith Wolff .

In February 1943, when the last Jews in Berlin were to be deported with the so-called “ factory action ”, the teacher Jizchak Schwersenz, who had already gone into hiding, gathered children and young people from various Jewish youth groups around him in the Chug Chaluzi . The aim of the youth group was to look for escape routes abroad and to organize life in illegality until liberation by the allied armies . After the successful escape from Schwersenz to Switzerland , the group was continued by Gad Beck . With the help of the group, the common term of resistance, coined by the historiography of the assassination of July 20, 1944 , can be problematized: “Resistance” here meant “to resist” in the sense of a survival strategy. While still underground , the group conveyed religious and Zionist content to its youthful members. Indeed, the vast majority of the members of this group managed to survive with the help of non-Jews, but individuals from this group were also subjected to extermination. The Chug Chaluzi is the only resistance group within Germany that acted out of Jewish-religious motives.

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Memorial plaque on the house at Bundesallee  79 in Berlin-Friedenau

The inscription on the memorial plaque in Bundesallee 79 in Berlin-Friedenau:

Lived in this house

Edith Wolff, called "Ewo" (1904–1997)
grew up in a Christian-Jewish family and founded the youth resistance group
here on February 27, 1943 with Jizchak Schwersenz and other
Jewish friends who had gone into hiding

Chug Chaluzi. Ewo was arrested on June 19, 1943; she survived
18 concentration camps and prisons.

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