Burns, Amos

Son of Simcha and blessed, was born on 26.3.1926 in the city of Tripoli, Libya, which was under Italian rule. He graduated from elementary school in Naples and attended the city’s high school. Amos joined the Betar movement and at the age of 16 went underground, and he and his friends succeeded in escaping on a small tugboat to reach Tripolitania safely, where they organized a military group that stood by the local Jews during the riots. The members of the group were especially active in rescuing souls during the great and terrible massacre of the Jews in the cities of Tripolitania during the Second World War and the German takeover.the end of the war he smuggled many Jews to various safe places and even to Egypt, As soon as the ship reached Haifa During the months of the War of Independence he was found in the Irgun and participated in the organization’s activities in Jerusalem. He kept in constant contact with his family and called on his brothers abroad to come and join the fighters, feeling that this was the sole and final anchor of salvation. In his last letter to his brother, he wrote to them: “It is possible that this letter will be the last … Life in the homeland has now become cheap because of the chaos … But the faith that beats in the Lev elevates the soldier to the holy symbol …” A few days later, on April 13, 1948, he died of his wounds and was buried in the Sanhedria cemetery in Jerusalem on the 29th of Nisan, April 24, 1952. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery at Har- Herzl in Jerusalem.