Deutsch, Benjamin

Son of Berna and Jacob, was born in 1927 in the town of Slotina, Czechoslovakia. He was a quiet and pleasant boy. The days of his youth, until the outbreak of World War II, were spent in the “room” in his town. During the war his parents perished in Auschwitz. Benjamin remained in Budapest with his two sisters, and after the fighting was taken by soldiers of the Jewish Brigade to Italy, where he joined the Hanoar Hazioni Movement and diligently studied the Hebrew language. His letters from there were filled with nostalgia for the country, and he was saddened and saddened by the arrest of the Yishuv leaders in Latrun after the “Black Sabbath” (June 29, 1946). He was shaken in the sea, under harsh conditions, until he reached the desired shore on the illegal immigrant ship Shabtai Luzinski. Near Ashdod, before the English arrived, the sea jumped from the deck of the ship, swam a few hundred meters and was brought to safety when he had pneumonia. After he recovered, he joined one of the kibbutzim and worked in carpentry. At the end of 1947 he was one of the first recruits. He always repeated his saying: “I heard that among the Arab fighters there are Nazis and I want to avenge my parents’ blood.” When they refused to enlist him because of his poor vision, he did not accept the decree until he managed to join the ranks of the fighters in the Golani Brigade. On the eve of the first truce, he was wounded in the foot of the Sejera outpost. He returned lame to the regiment, because he did not want to lie in bed anymore, and acted as a quartermaster in his lab. When he learned that the brigade was moving to the Negev, he demanded that he participate in Operation Horev and courageously fulfilled an important role assigned to him during the fighting in the Gaza Strip. On August 3, 1949, a few days before the cease-fire, he fell during the shelling of an enemy in the area of ​​Nirim, and was buried on the borders on the day of the 16th of Av 5709 (August 11, 1949) Military presence in Nahalat Yitzhak.