Consens, Pinchas-Mendel

Was born in the town of Dzhalushin, Poland, and attended elementary school, and from his youth he dreamed of immigrating to Eretz Israel, and in 1939, during the Second World War, he was transferred with his entire family He was a member of Hanoar Hatzioni, an activist, organizer of groups, and director of secret meetings, and in 1941 the ghetto became seriously ill and the doctor was desperate to save him, but he recovered a few days later, when he was sent to the extermination camp, On July 18, 1944, with the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto, he was sent with his whole family to the Auschwitz death camp, where he witnessed the death of his two brothers and his parents were killed. He left Poland with a training kibbutz that he organized, moved to Italy, and on January 18, 1946 he arrived in Israel on the illegal immigrant ship “Enzo Sereni.” As soon as he arrived, he fell ill for six months, With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he was drafted into a full service, and Pinchas-Mendel could not be Simcha to spend a long time with his two sisters, family survivors, who had come from Cyprus during his vacations and had spoken of the heroism of the army. To that. On the night of June 2-3, 1948, during the “Philistine” operation, the Givati ​​forces attacked the Egyptian alignment near the Ashdod Bridge (the “Ad Halom” bridge today). The assault was halted by heavy enemy fire and the forces were forced to retreat. The attack failed, but forced the Egyptians to prepare for the ground and halted their advance northwards. In this battle, on May 3, 1948, he served as a paramedic, helping his friend who was wounded in the operation. Was brought to rest in a grave in the military cemetery in the village of Warburg.