Berdichev, Abba

Son of Suzy and Mordechai. He was born on May 25, 1920, in Galatasia, Romania, and as a descendant of a Hasidic family, he had a deep love for Israel from his childhood and already in elementary school defended his Jewishness and aroused respect and esteem among his non-Jewish friends. But when an anti-Semitic party came to power in Romania, an order was issued to dismantle the farm, and Father was given the task of representing the movement to the authorities and concentrating the handling of the farm’s property, March and perseverance, and in 1940, after the outbreak of World War II, he had an opportunity Ruth took the immigrants to Eretz Israel with his friends, but he chose to immigrate to Eretz Israel with his friends, and it took four months to reach the shores of Eretz Israel, where the immigrants were interned in the Mazra camps near Acre and Atlit for a year and a half. And after the liberation from the Atlit camp he moved to Kibbutz Geva in the Jezreel Valley and then to the Ashdot Ya’akov in the Jordan Valley, and in the summer of 1944 his comrades founded the ” Photograph of the “Ha’oved Hazioni” in Herzliya. In November 1943, Father volunteered for a parachuting mission abroad, and in March 1944 he and Hannah Szenes, Reuven Dafni and Yona Rosenfeld of Bari, Italy, went to Yugoslavia, where the national institutions were tasked with penetrating pro-Nazi Romania and connecting with Romanian Jews To assist them in the struggle for their existence, and at the same time he was assigned a military mission – assisting in the escape of captured pilots and gathering intelligence for the Allied war effort.father arrived in the Paphok Mountains where he wanted to join a British expedition but was forced to remain in Yugoslavia Of the Allies who had fled the captivity or had landed In 1944 he was sent to the Czech enclave in Banska-Bystrica, where there was an uprising against the Nazi occupier and brought with him three transmissions for a parachutist unit that had been found He was still in search of ways to reach his main destination – Romania, and succeeded in joining as a British soldier named Willis to a delegation of American and British officers who were sent to rescue captured pilots in a special operation And called “Operation Duas” . In this way he hoped to reach Romania. On the way from Banska-Bystrica to the Hungarian border, the group boarded a German ambush. The members of the group dispersed and tried to escape. The hunt lasted nearly two months and they fell one by one. On December 26, 1944, they were all in captivity and transferred to the Mauthausen camp. Their interrogation continued for eight days and they were executed by order of Kaltenbrunner, head of the Reich Internal Security Office. Their bodies were burned. Father was executed on the 12th of Shvat 5725 (January 26, 1945). Lay a father, brothers and sisters. In the Paratroopers section on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a memorial is etched in his memory. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.