Pinchas Freudiger
Pinchas Freudiger, also Fülöp Freudiger, Philip von Freudiger (born 1900 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, died 1976 in Israel) was a Hungarian-Israeli manufacturer and Jewish community leader. Life Philip von Freudiger was a grandson of the textile manufacturer Mózes Freudiger (1833-1911), who was one of the founders of the Jewish Orthodox community in Budapest and was elevated to nobility. Pinchas Freudiger studied and entered the family business. He was a member of the Jewish Orthodox council in Budapest and took over in 1939 his chairmanship in succession to his late father Abraham Freudiger (1868-1939), Holocaust Since 1938 the authoritarian Horthy regime of Hungary tightened anti-Semitic laws enacted to make the Jews socially isolated. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 a few Jews managed to flee to Hungary. Freudiger and others created support organizations for the supply and onward journey of these people. Meanwhile, the Jews of Hungarian nationality believed in their safety in spite of anti-Semitism in the country. In the war against the Soviet Union in 1941 the Jewish men were not recruited for the Hungarian army, but used in forced labor battalions often stationed behind or at the front. In 1942, after intense pressure by Rabbi Chaim Michael