Alexander, Hanan (Hans)

Son of Lotte and customs, was born on August 11, 1925, in Osnabrueck, Germany. In his city he attended high school and immigrated to Israel via Denmark in 1940 as part of the Youth Aliya. His parents and sister remained in Germany and were exterminated in Auschwitz. Hanan spent two years in Mishmar Ha’emek. In 1943, he enlisted in the British army and served as a driver until he was liberated in 1945. Following the UN General Assembly resolution of November 29, 1947, he served as an armored driver and on July 9, 1948, Golani forces attacked the village of Lubia To eliminate the control of the Kaukji forces on the road to Tiberias and the threat of cutting off the Upper Galilee. Hanan was an armored driver in the armored column that left Tiberias and was intended to attack Lubia from this direction, in coordination with another force that attacked from the south. The armored column encountered enemy fire from the ridges on the side of the road and had to retreat. In this battle Hanan fell. After his body was identified, he was transferred to the military cemetery in Afula on 26 August 1948.