Adler, Michael
Michael, son of Chava (Chana) and Yitzhak, was born in 1928 in the town of Slotina in Czechoslovakia, was educated in an elementary school and later studied shoemaking, and during the Second World War Michael was taken to the Dachau camp near Munich. Was one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazis, and began to function only in March 1933, when only political opponents of the Nazi regime were imprisoned, and more than 200,000 people passed through the gates during the war, some 31,000 of whom perished, And suffered from hunger, exhaustion, and severe perspiration of the SS personnel who practiced at the site. In 1945. Dachau was liberated by the Americans, and Michael was in the camp with no one left in his large family, and he wandered among DP camps in Europe and joined the Dror Zionist youth movement that operated in the training camp at Frenwald, a military fortress converted by the Americans to a camp where Jewish refugees And from the training camp he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1947. In the middle of 1947, he arrived near the shores of the country aboard an illegal immigrant ship organized by the Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet of the Haganah, but the ship was seized by the British and all its immigrants were deported to Cyprus. Only a few months later did Michael get to Israel. At first he joined Kibbutz Naan near Rehovot, and in October 1947 he arrived at Kibbutz Ein Hayam, on the Carmel coast near the settlement of Atlit. Later he moved to Tel Aviv. In mid-May 1948, after losing his beloved uncle who fell in battle, Michael decided to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces. He served in the “Sheva” brigade, which quickly organized on the eve of the establishment of the state, a brigade whose first task was to break through the road to Jerusalem. Michael was a member of the 71st Battalion sent to Latrun, but managed to fight with his battalion for only a few weeks. He fell in a weapons disaster during the first truce, on 27 June 1948, at an Israeli outpost that defended the “Burma Road” that was breached to bypass Latrun and Bab al-Wad, twenty years old, and was first buried in Na’an, And on the 2nd of Sivan 5705 (18.5.1950) was transferred to eternal rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
