Berenchuk, David-Zvi

Son of Gita-Feigel and Yosef, was born on 26.8.1928 in the town of Zlodek near Grodno, Poland, where he studied in an elementary school, and when the Nazis entered the town, they deported its Jews, After the first slaughter by the Germans in the ghetto, David-Zvi decided to escape, and he broke through the chain of guards and fled to the forest, and after various adventures was assembled by a Russian partisan battalion that operated in the forests And took part in the battles even before the age of 14. When the district was liberated by the Soviet army, David-Zvi returned to his home and realized that his mother had been killed by the Nazis and his two brothers had joined And the second was killed in the battle for the conquest of Berlin by the Russians, and David-Zvi volunteered for the Soviet Army, served in the Soviet air force and was awarded medals of distinction. His father and sisters remained alive, and in 1945 he left for Eretz Israel, and after a long struggle in the Czech Republic, Austria and Italy, he arrived in Israel on May 19, 1946. He worked as a plumber and in February 1948 he was drafted into the Jerusalem Brigade. He participated in the battles in Jerusalem, was wounded and died of his wounds at Beilinson Hospital on September 11, 1948, and was brought to rest in the Hadera military cemetery, his father’s place of residence.