Cohen, Nachman (Yosef-Even)

Son of Henia and Yosef, was born on April 2, 1928 in Czechoslovakia. His parents spoke Hungarian, but Nachman received Jewish education from Yiddish teachers and was educated in Czechoslovakian patriotism in eight elementary school classes in Ruthenian and Czech, and then began to study frameworks. When the region was restored to Hungarian rule after the Nazi occupation, Nachman suffered from anti-Semitic discrimination, and when the persecution of the Nazis and their Hungarian allies increased, he was able to pretend to be a pure Aryan and worked underground until the Nazis were expelled from the area. His parents and most of his family were taken away like the rest of the Jews to and from Auschwitz. After the war he tried to continue to work in his profession, but could not continue to live as a countryman who abandoned his family and his people for extermination. Nachman immigrated to Israel from Czechoslovakia in 1945, joined the “Creators” group in Kfar Masaryk and worked there. In February 1948, he volunteered for the army and served in the Carmeli Brigade. On the afternoon of March 27, 1948, a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya to deliver supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yiham. Near Kabri, the convoy encountered an Arab ambush. The first armored vehicle managed to break into Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but about half of them fell in battle and were among them. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Nahariya.