Abramowitz, Moshe

Son of Rivka and Dov, was born in 1921 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. After a few years, the family returned to their hometown of Khust, in the Carpatho-Russian part of the Marmaros district (then in Czechoslovakia). Where he studied in the “cheder” and in the elementary school, and later worked as a baker. His acquaintances in Israel knew that in the beginning of the winter of 1947 he had arrived in Jerusalem, and that the Jews of Khust had also been sent by the Hungarians to the Auschwitz extermination camp and from there Moshe was taken to a labor camp. After a long time he went without work and at the beginning of the War of Independence he was hired at the Angel-Berman bakery in Jerusalem, and shortly afterwards he joined the Haganah and served in one of the battalions in the Jerusalem Brigade. On the 13th of Adar 2 5708, on the eve of Purim (March 24, 1948), while on vacation, he joined a convoy that went to bring water to Atarot. Near Shuafat, the convoy was attacked by an Arab crowd. In the battle that lasted more than an hour, all the convoy members were injured and Moshe was among the fallen. With the intervention of the British army, the dead and the wounded were rescued. Moshe was brought the next day to eternal rest in the cemetery in Sanhedria in Jerusalem.