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Hugo Friedler (1908-1959), Jewish youth organizer, who was born in Trieste, Italy (then part of Austria-Hunagay), became a Zionist in his youth and was influenced by Rabbi Z.P. Chajes when his parents moved to Leoben, a small university town 70 km to the the south west of Vienna, which in those days was a stronghold of anti-Semitic activity. There were several foreign Jews who studied at the local university who were associated with Zionist activities in the town and helped sustain a strong Jewish life in this provincial centre.

In 1918, Friedler joined the youth group and also the Hakoach Jewish sports club. In 1921 his parents went to live in Vienna where the young Friedler immediately joined the Jung Juda ("Young Judeans") Zionist youth group, which later amalgamated into the Blau Weiss ("Blue White") movement of which he was soon became a group leader. In 1928 he joined a group of Radical Zionists and two years later the Union of Jabotinsky's Revisionists. In 1930 he returned to Leoben, where to took on the full-time task of being responsible for all the youth Zionist activities of the Jewish communities of the towns of the province of Styria. In the 1930s the situation of Jews throughout Austria deteriorated and his work was concentrated in maintaining the morale of his young charges. After the anexation of Austria by Nazi Germany the situation deteriorated still further. All public pro-Zionist activities ceased. Friedler became involved in helping to arrange illegal emigration to Palestine. Many Jewish youngsters took advantage of the possibility. He himself began to consider and then organize his own emigration. In 1939, at almost the last moment, he obtained a Certificate of Emigration and came to Palestine.

He settled in Haifa. Friedler held a number of minor positions but never really established himself in Israeli society.