The six torch-lighters at tonight's Holocaust Day ceremonies, and their heroic stories, are as follows: * Reuven Dafni, born in 1913 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. He moved to Palestine at age 23 and was among the founders of Kibbutz Ein Gev. Drafted into the British Army in January 1940, he was entrusted with establishing a Yugoslavian Brigade, which was to handle contact with the partisans in occupied Europe. Around the same time, Reuven met the "Israeli" group that was supposed to parachute behind enemy lines to rescue Jews and bring them to Palestine. On March 13, 1944, at midnight, he and three others - the famous Hannah Senesh, Yona Rosen and Abba Berdiszew - parachuted into Yugoslavia: Hannah and Yona with the purpose of reaching Hungary, Abba with the aim of reaching Romania, and Reuven who was to remain in Yugoslavia. Once in Yugoslavia, Reuven was to help rescue Jews and send them to Italy. Upon landing, the partisans who awaited them led them to a village. After marching for several days, they reached the headquarters of the partisans, and Reuven and Hannah met General Roseman, who sent them to the Croatian partisans. They walked for 12 days under close escort to the Croatian area, and remained there until June 9, 1944, when Hannah and three young men crossed the border into Hungary. Hannah had arranged with Reuven that he would wait for her for three weeks at the exit point, and if she had not arrived by then, he was to assume she had been captured. Reuven waited for six weeks, during which time he remained in Yugoslavia helping dozens of Jews escape with aid from the partisans. Then he received word from headquarters in Palestine that Hannah Senesh had been captured. She was tortured, sentenced, and then executed on November 7, 1944. Following her murder, Dafni returned to Cairo to join the Jewish Brigade. Thanks to a fortuitous meeting in Bari, Italy with one of his brothers (who was serving in the American army), he learned that his father and older brother had survived. Reuven followed them to Palestine soon after, discovering upon his return that his mother had been killed in 1941. He returned to Kibbutz Ein Gev and later worked in the diplomatic service with Israel's Foreign Ministry. Reuven has two children and two grandchildren. * Hela Schupper-Rufeisen. Born in 1921 to a religious family of five children in Krakow, Poland. She was a founding member of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in the Warsaw ghetto. She helped prepare forged Polish identity cards for fighters in the forests, obtained weapons and documents, relayed messages, and coordinated between fighting factions. One night while Hela resided with neighbors in the Warsaw ghetto, they were woken by gunfire, causing them to retreat to the attic. The ghetto had been surrounded by the Germans and, within days, was set ablaze. Hela was smuggled over to the ZOB headquarters on 18 Mila Street where, to her surprise, she discovered hundreds of people hiding. She was one of ten people whom the ghetto leadership decided to send to the Aryan side of the city on May 7, 1943, through the sewer system, in order to arrange for help. She made it out, and a rescue operation was arranged, but before it could be executed, Hela and the others received the terrible news: the ZOB bunker had fallen to the Germans, and many of the underground members had been murdered. She herself was eventually deported to Bergen-Belsen, where she spent 22 months under conditions of hunger, cold, humiliation and murder. After the war, she joined a German group that made aliyah. In Palestine she met her future husband, Arie Rufeisen, and together they joined the founding members of Bustan HaGalil. Hela has three children and ten grandchildren. * Ephraim Agmon, 81. Born in 1922 Kisvarda, Hungary, the eldest child in a religious family of eight children. In October 1943, he moved to Budapest, where he participated in preparations to operate in underground conditions in the HaShomer HaTza'ir framework. He was later sent to Munkatch to help the local youth operate an organized underground to oppose the Nazis. A month afterwards, the Germans assembled the Jews of Munkatch, but Ephraim managed to escape to Budapest, where he joined the HaShomer HaTza'ir leadership. Disguised as a train officer and equipped with the proper documentation, Ephraim traveled throughout Hungary as a messenger for the underground. He made contact with Jewish communities and individuals, trying to convince them to organize themselves and resist the Germans. At the same time, Ephraim was active in the "Tiyul" Organization, which facilitated the rescue of Jews to Slovakia and Romania. Ephraim provided the escapees with false papers and money, as well as information about contacts, hiding places, and assistance on the other side of the border. When Romania closed it borders in August 1944, he began aiding the rescue of Jews from the forced labor force and helped hide them in Budapest. As part of this objective, he disguised himself as a Fascist Arrow Cross member, and was nearly caught more than once. He later joined the Hungarian Jewry Aid and Assistance Committee, in which framework, thousands of Jewish children were saved and 50 orphanages were established (all cared for by members of the underground). Following liberation, the children were moved to outlying communities in preparation for their aliyah to Israel. He himself made aliyah in 1946, and has three children. * Denise Sikirski, born in 1924 in Marseilles, France, was an only child raised by her grandparents. At age 18, as a Jewish Scouts troop leader, she received her first assignment with the Jewish underground: caring for four young female refugees and placing them in prearranged hiding places. From then on, she and other Scout leaders became active in locating hideouts for Jews, facilitating illegal border crossings to Switzerland, distributing forged documents, and smuggling weapons, money, food, and ration coupons. She and her family survived the German mass 'aktion' in Marseilles in January 1943, even though more than 1,000 Jews were sent to death camps, and she continued with her underground activities. Learning that the Gestapo was looking for her, she escaped to Grenoble, but later returned to Marseilles and continued with her underground rescue and resistance work - there and elsewhere - until the war's end. In 1947, Denise and her husband made aliyah; she has two children, three grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. * David (Yorek) Plonski, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. In 1940, with the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto, 14-year old Yorek became his family's sole supporter, smuggling kosher meat into the ghetto, at great peril and with much abuse from Polish youths. In 1942, life in the ghetto became progressively more unbearable, smuggling became increasingly difficult and dangerous, but Yorek continued to smuggle in goods. On August 18, 1942, Yorek returned from "work" to find his parents packing, as they were being sent on one of the transports. His mother began screaming that he must leave, and pushed him out a window. Yorek fled, and the next day the Jews of his neighborhood Otwock, including his family, were killed. Yorek escaped to Warsaw where he met Dr. Levy Wilevsky, who organized a group of underground fighters. Yorek was recruited as a gofer, responsible for purchasing and smuggling weapons and ammunition, and transmitting information. When the Soviet army bombed Warsaw in May 1943, Yorek and the surviving members of Wilevsky's group escaped to the sewers. He later led his few remaining comrades through the sewers to the Aryan side of the city, aided by the Polish underground. With the outbreak of the Polish revolt in August 1944, Yorek fled to Lublin with forged Aryan papers, and after the war he moved to Lodz. He joined HaShomer HaTza'ir and helped search for Jewish orphans, later moved to Israel, fought in the War of Independence, joined the founders of Kibbutz Megiddo and met Alexandra, also a Holocaust survivor. They married and had three children. Their son, Eitan, was killed during the Yom Kippur War. * Edith Drori, born in 1920 in Dunaharaszti, Hungary. Two siblings made aliyah before the war after their father died, but her mother and older brother were killed by the Nazis. She then joined a small underground cell of five people in the Sitno Mountains in Slovakia. The group, which later grew to 30 members, printed and distributed an underground newsletter calling for an end to the persecution of Jews, but later disbanded. She then joined the Slovakian revolt, handling supplies and provisions and volunteering for special assignments, and was the only female among 200 fighters. After the Germans suppressed the revolt, she was among the few survivors, but contracted malaria during her escape. After the war, Edith was awarded the Red Star Medal of High Merit and a medal as a heroine of the Slovakian people. In July 1948, Edith arrived in Israel and in 1952 married Shlomo Drori. They moved to Moshav Magshimim and adopted a daughter, Nili.