Altman, Abraham (Avi)

Son of Hanna and Yehoshua, was born in 1918 in Reisha, Poland. He first studied in a “cheder” and later in a regular school. When he grew up, he expressed his desire to be a laborer, against the will of his father, who would persist in his theoretical studies. And he did learn stonemasons and worked as a professional worker in building bridges and stone works. With the outbreak of World War II, he was sent by his father to the Russian zone of occupation. But he immediately returned from there, worried about his parents in the ghetto. Although he was forced to work in a German arms factory, he nursed his parents and hid them until their deaths. After the Russian conquest he set out for Palestine. For two years he moved to Romania, Italy and Cyprus and arrived in Israel at the end of the summer of 1947. Avraham became an old-timer and was a broad-shouldered man who knew his way. He thought of finding his future in Tel Amal, where his older sister sat, but first worked temporarily as a laborer in Haifa and then in Tel Aviv. In February 1948 he joined the War of Independence. He spent his military training in a training camp in Na’an, and later served in the Jerusalem Brigade, the Beit Horon Battalion, and was among the burglars to the Old City. On the 18th of Tammuz 5708 (18.7.1948), he fell in battle for the legion of the legion in the Miocarra area in Jerusalem as he crawled to replace his wounded friend near the machine gun. He was buried in Sheikh Bader Aleph. On September 11, 1950, he was put to rest at the cemetery in Tel Amal.