Berman, Alter

Son of Attal and Simcha, was born in February 1927 in the city of Kalushin, Poland. Until the Nazi invasion he studied in the elementary school and survived the horrors of the occupation and the Holocaust. With the end of World War he had a profession: leather processing and preparation for immigration. Alter boarded an illegal immigrant ship that was seized, transferred to Cyprus and released in 1947. He was in Even Yehuda, with the youth of Nitzanim, who was about to immigrate to Israel. In the meantime, the War of Independence broke out, Alter was joined to the defensive forces and fought in the Negev. To his parents who remained in Germany and waited for their immigration to write enthusiastic letters about the country and the War of Independence. “I’d better fall like a hero here, and I will not die in Germany without knowing what.” Alter fell in Nirim on the 28th of Av, 5708 (August 28, 1948) and was buried in Tze’elim. A few months after his fall, his parents arrived in Israel. On the 5th of Iyar 5702 (2.5.1950) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.