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Brick, Moshe (“Yentzi”)

Brick, Moshe (“Yentzi”)


Son of Dov and Amma. He was born on May 26, 1929 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. From the time he reached the age of eleven, he fled the house with his friend and decided to go on foot, but on the Hungarian border he was recognized by the peasants (according to the newspaper ads) and returned to his parents’ home after graduating from elementary school. “Youth Aliyah” as one of the survivors of the extermination camps in Europe who was brought to Bergen-Belsen at the age of fourteen. After immigrating to Eretz Israel, he soon became absorbed in the “Youth Aliya” movement. He studied in the agriculture in the Borochov neighborhood and belonged to the Hanoar Haoved movement. In 1947 he volunteered to serve in the Hebrew settlement police. He was a good friend and willing to help others without bills. He was innocent and believed in man as a human being. He fought hard on the bread of his bread and all his worries were with his family. He was sent to Hulda (where he met his future wife). He had a national consciousness and a courageous fighter. Participated in the War of Independence; He was among the convoys. He fought in Gush Etzion, in the pocket of Falluja, and in Iraq Suidan. At the end of the War of Independence he owned a workshop. With the outbreak of the Sinai Campaign, he left his work and went to fight. He took part in the battles of Abu ‘Agila and Kutzeima and reached the banks of the Mitla. As a member of the armed forces, he was not like him, and out of joy and will he volunteered for every mission. His rich military experience has always been safe for everyone around him. He was one of the first to leave on the eve of the Six-Day War and to participate in it with coolness and courage. He would say to his friends: “I passed the 1948 war, I went through Sinai, and this time too we will pass.” However, it was not so, because on the second day of the fighting, on the second day of the fighting, on May 26, 1967, he fell in a plane bombardment. He left a wife and two sons. He was buried in the military cemetery in Bari and later moved to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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