Asuid, Michel-Victor

Born in 1926 in Paris, son of Assel was a son of mixed marriages, his father was a Jew and his mother was a Christian, and as a child he received Christian education and Jewish and Jewish knowledge, and when he was thirteen, his mother died and together with his father moved to Tunisia. 1943, when Tunisia was brought under the boots of the Nazi soldiers, Michel joined the Free French forces, organized by General de Gaulle, and took part in fierce battles in the battle near Monte Cassino, Italy, with rare courage and won the war cross for his action in battle. On the French front, took part in the famous battle near Belfort, crossed the Rhine with the French forces and took part in the battle on German soil. For the first time, Lama met with his Jewish brothers, survivors of the death camps, who had a deep wound in his eyes, and his eyes on German soil, the cruel crimes committed by the Germans and the terrible suffering of their victims gave him no rest in the day and kept him awake at night. He found that he had asked, he had heard about the War of Independence of the Jewish Yishuv in Eretz Israel, and about an arms ship about to be sent by fighters to help their brothers fight for the integrity of the homeland . Without a pause or doubt, he separated from his father and set sail for Marseilles. On the day he boarded the Altalena, he sent a postcard to his father saying, “Today I’m going home.” It was the last piece of news he had received that indicated his hope for a new life. The Altalena sailed from Marseilles in June 1948, carrying a large number of weapons and ammunition, and about 850 volunteers, most of them Holocaust survivors who were trained in the camps by Etzel instructors. One of the victims of this tragedy was Michel, who was killed in the exchange of fire on June 22, 1948. He was brought to a rest-of-the- He returned to his homeland but his hope for a new life was not fulfilled.