Aharon, Eliyahu (body)

Son of Roza and Frush, was born in 1928 in the town of Argash in Transylvania (Romania). Until 1939 he attended school in his hometown. When the Iron Guard authorities removed the Jewish students from the schools, Eliyahu was also expelled from his school. From childhood, he was a member of the Habonim youth movement, the pioneer Zionist youth movement and active in its ranks. When Romania was also annexed to World War II with Nazi Germany, his father and uncle were arrested and sent to labor camps in Transnistria where both were exterminated. His mother and aunt, who had served the family as clerks in the District Court, had been dismissed from their jobs and the family had no means of subsistence. At the age of 12 Eliahu began to work and only two years later his name came out as a good electrician. Upon the liberation of Romania by the Red Army, he left for the movement’s training kibbutz in Timisoara. Here he rediscovered his talents, was elected to the Labor Council and two months later served as secretary of the kibbutz. In the first group of the organization of immigration through Italy, he left Romania, crossed the Hungarian border with his comrades, crossed the Austrian border and after severe hardships reached Italy and from there he sailed on the ship “Sefcia”, which reached the shores of the country. At the end of 1946. In the framework of a youth company he went to Hachshara in Ramat Hakovesh. Before graduating, he moved to Na’an, where he went with his training to the borders of the Negev and joined one of the Palmach battalions, and was named by his friends who trusted him and loved him, participated in Operation Horev for the expulsion of the Egyptian army in Israel, Hafir (Nitzana) on December 30, 1948. He was buried next to the grave of his friend Sonia Weksler, who also fell in the Negev, at the cemetery of Gvulot. 11.8.1949) was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.