Brauchover, Michael

Son of Irena and Max, was born on the 11th of Tevet 5711 (11.1.1912) in the city of Morawska-Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. His father was a chemist and mechanical engineer and a lecturer at the University of Vienna and later took over the administration of the Albert Hahn Institute in Berlin; He died when his son Michael was only seven years old. Michael attended high school and university in his home town of Vienna, but stopped before graduating and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933, where he worked in the profession he had just acquired – carpentry. Lived alone in the country. Michael was a talented musician both as a pianist and as a person with extensive and profound knowledge of the subject. His only brother emigrated to the United States and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. When the War of Independence broke out, Michael enlisted and was assigned to the 32nd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade. On July 10, 1948, the village of Kula was conquered by our forces. On the evening of July 15, 1948, his company replaced another company from the Brigade in the posts east of Cule, and had not yet managed to prepare and dig in properly. On the morning of the 9th of Tammuz 5708 (July 16, 1948), the Legion attacked the outpost and, aided by artillery fire and armored vehicles, swept the departmental posts in the front post and forced the company to retreat, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya. A monument was erected on a hill east of the moshav of Giv’at Koach in the book “The Fifty Minutes of Cola,” written by Shmuel Schwartz, describing Michael as a kind, intelligent and knowledgeable man whose ear was always attentive to the problems of his friends .