Deutsch, Tibor

Tibor, son of Nelly and Mordechai Deutsch, was born in October 1922 in the Hungarian village of Shaga-Palen. At the age of sixteen he was already a skilled carpenter. During the Second World War, he was drafted into the Hungarian army and worked in forced labor. His parents were taken to the Auschwitz death camp. The mother was murdered and the father survived. After the war, Tibor joined the General Zionist movement and was a member of the Dror youth movement in Budapest. In 1947, he immigrated to Israel. He worked in his profession on one of the moshavot, and his main concern was to bring over his sister and his father who remained in the Diaspora. In mid-May 1948, Tibor enlisted in the newly formed Brigade 7, and fought for the breakthrough to Jerusalem, which was blocked by the Latrun Legion. He fell in the second attack on Latrun (Operation “son of Nun”) on the 22nd of Iyar 5708 (May 31, 1948). When his father arrived in Israel, he no longer found his son alive. On 17.11.1949, he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.