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Damas, Kalman (Karol)

Damas, Kalman (Karol)

Son of Ya’akov and Mindel. He was born on July 12, 1934 in Jassy, ​​Romania. When he was a year old, he had been orphaned from his mother and raised by the dedicated and loyal care of his sister, Tova, who was then only seventeen years old. He was fourteen years old when he got to the shores of Eretz Israel in the framework of Youth Aliyah at the end of March 1948 – at the height of the War of Independence and the blood-soaked birth throes of the state, which was to emerge after a month and a half. The children were brought as a group to Kfar Hess in the Tel Mond area and distributed among the families there. In April 1952, Kalman was drafted into the IDF and assigned to the infantry. Another course gave him the rank of sergeant. In the meantime he married his wife Fanny, and they built their first home in Moshav Yachini in the south. He participated in all wars – from the Sinai Campaign to the Yom Kippur War. He fell during his duty in the north of the country on 2 December 1978. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Afula, leaving a wife, two daughters and a father.

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