Borszczuk, Alexander (“Shurik”)

Alexander, son of Yekutiel and Batya Borszczuk, was born on August 15, 1939 in Poland, and was orphaned from his father at the age of three in 1942. In 1949 he immigrated to Israel with his mother and was accepted to an institution in Ein Shemer, where he was a diamond polisher and was fond of reading books and listening to music, He was drafted in May 1957. Before the Six-Day War he was called back to the service and then stood up with the Rangers and while he was commanding a jeep when the Allenby Bridge was blown up, an enemy sniper hit him and he fell. It was on the third day of the fighting, on the 28th of Iyar 5727 (7.6.1967). He left a wife and a child. Was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.