Bendermacher, Yehoshua (Salak)

Son of Moshe and Miriam. He was born on November 28, 1928, in Piotrkow, Poland. After the Nazi occupation of Poland, he was caught and stayed in several detention camps. He was finally released by the Americans from the Quarantine camp in Austria. A few months later he was transferred together with all the youth by soldiers of the Jewish Brigade to a concentration camp in Salzburg and from there to Italy for training in Aliyah. At the end of 1945 he arrived in Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah. After three years of study at the Magdiel Agricultural School, he graduated with honors. Then he joined the police. At the beginning of the War of Independence, he served in the Israel Defense Forces and took part in battles throughout the country, on the 30th of Elul 5709 (August 30, 1949), while serving in the military section of the cemetery in Safed.