Brauner, Jacob

Son of Sarah and David, was born in 1928 in Lodz, Poland. After graduating from elementary school, he was taken by the Nazis, like all his comrades, to the death camps. In the Auschwitz and Dachau camps, the boy spent days of terror and agony, but all of this came out intact and his spirit was not undermined. At the end of the war and his release from the Nazi camp, he joined the Dror youth movement in Italy and immigrated to Israel in 1945 as part of the Youth Aliyah. He received his training at Givat Hashlosha, worked in the vegetable garden and stood out among his friends with his extraordinary energy and daring ideas. When the War of Independence broke out, he was called to service and participated in many combat activities: he fought in the Harel Brigade around Hulda, accompanied convoys to Jerusalem, participated in “Nachshon” activities, , “Harel” and “Maccabi” until he was wounded, and was later sent to a paramedics course and was active until the day of his death, and Yaakov fell tragically on the 17th of Elul 5708 (September 21, 1948) , To carry water and supplies to the Ma’ale Hahamisha, on the winding road between the mountains, and the jeep he was driving in turned over and fell down the steep slope, where Yaakov was seriously wounded and died in the Jerusalem hospital, Cheshvan Tsi”a (10/31/1950) was laid-rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.