Peretz, son of Frida and Herbert, was born on January 1, 1926, in Berlin, the capital of Germany. Studied in elementary school. He was ten years old when you left his father. His mother was sick and his only sister ran the household. The large Jewish community in Berlin ran the life of religion and education, welfare and welfare, and maintained a rich and diverse cultural life. The Jews were prominent in the publishing of newspapers and books, published in medicine and excelled as entrepreneurs in the industry. Anti-Semitism in Germany began to emerge in the early 1930s, and intensified with the strengthening of the Nazis. Many Jews decided to emigrate, while Zionist activity increased. The status of the Jewish community in Berlin was abolished in March 1938. In November, the Kristallnacht pogroms took place, during which the synagogues were torched, public institutions were attacked, commercial houses were burglarized and robbed. Since then, Jewish blood has been allowed everywhere. At the outbreak of World War II, in September 1939, there were about 75,000 Jews in Berlin – about half of them in the early 1930s. The Jews were severely restricted. Among other things, they were forced to wear the yellow star and were required to evacuate their apartments as a cover for their deportation eastward. When the war broke out, Peretz was forced to leave the school. At the age of 14 he was taken by the Germans to forced labor. The next few years were spent in hard labor, starvation, cold and destitution. At the end of February 1943, when the extermination of the Jews began in all German cities, Peretz, his mother and sister were sent in freight cars to Auschwitz, where they were brutally separated and there he saw them for the last time in his life. Peretz lived a hard working life. Bens was saved from extermination when he was put to work in the camp hospital. Friends who were together with him and survived, praised him, and testified that everyone loved them. The moment of liberation, in 1945, found Peretz in the Dachau concentration camp. He returned to Berlin and found that there was nothing left of his family. One emissary from the Land of Israel referred him to the “Buchenwald” training group, and Peretz was captured by the Zionist idea. The idea of establishing a training kibbutz was born during the war in the Buchenwald camp with a group of prisoners, religious and secular, from Germany and Poland, most of them with pioneering backgrounds or Zionist leanings. They began their training on a German farm in the Weimar region and then moved westward to Bavaria, where they worked for three years. Peretz’s friend told him: “I remember that winter day, that evening when Peretz came to the training farm in Gringeshof near Fulda in Germany, who were gathered in the dining room, singing and dancing, and he came in a little sheepishly and uncertainly. In the early days Peretz felt himself in his home, as if he had lived in the company for a long time, and all his friends saw him as a good person. Peretz was connected to the cowshed and was considered one of the best dairy farmers in the hachshara. Peretz made his way to Israel together with the “Buchenwald B” nucleus on the illegal immigrant ship Aliyah, which broke the British naval blockade. The ship, which was purchased by the Mossad Le’Aliya Bet for the Haganah, sailed from Bandol, France, on November 5, 1947, carrying about 180 illegal immigrants and members of youth movements from Eastern Europe and North African immigrants. As it approached the Lebanese coast, it was discovered by a British reconnaissance aircraft that launched a destroyer, but the small ship managed to escape. On the morning of November 17, 1947, “Aliya” arrived at Nahariya without being discovered, and all its passengers went ashore. The immigrants dispersed in the Western Galilee kibbutzim, from which they reached various places in the country. Peretz joined Kibbutz Tel Yosef, one of the veteran kibbutzim in the Jezreel Valley. Became involved in the company and struck roots in Israel. Even under conditionsThe newcomers he was not used to were full of encouragement, his speech full of Jewish-German humor and his actions always accompanied by a slight smile. When the War of Independence broke out, Peretz changed beyond recognition. His agony and his passing, which he had already buried in the depths of his soul, reawakened him, and he knew no rest. He felt that an inner force was pushing him to embark on great actions, and his feelings were expressed in simple words: “I can not sit here, I feel I’m sorry for the place!” He found the solution to his feelings by enlisting in the defensive forces. He was trained as a thief and was sent to the front of Jerusalem as part of the “Alfortzim” battalion, the 4th Battalion of the Palmach Brigade “Harel” – the 10th Battalion in the Haganah. Carmeli “,” Alexandroni “and in various settlements on the coastal plain. For the purpose of the “Yevusi” operation – an operation designed to create a Jewish territorial contiguity within Jerusalem and between the city and the northern communities – the entire Harel Brigade was transferred to the Jerusalem area and established in Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim. On the night of 22/23, 1948, the 4th Battalion of the Brigade attacked Shuafat and Beit Iksa, who were on the access routes to Nebi Samwil, north of Jerusalem. In the first stage Beit Iksa was captured at midnight, and the purpose was to break into Nabi Samuel under the cover of the night. But unlike the other villages, the Arabs carried out a harsh counterattack. Although the resistance was destroyed, the timetable went awry. The movement of the force to Nebi Samwil took a long time and the assault began only at dawn. In the face of enemy fire, the force was forced to withdraw, and in the harsh retreat in broad daylight many were injured. More than twenty fighters from the Harel Brigade fell in this battle. After the attack failed, Ma’aleh Hahamisha and Kiryat Anavim were sent a number of armored vehicles with fighters from Harel to rescue the captured force at Nabi Samwil. Near the radar post, which was then controlled by the British, the armored vehicles encountered the checkpoints of the Arab Legion, from which heavy fire was fired. The ammunition used included armor-piercing bullets. Many were injured in the armored vehicles themselves, some vehicles were damaged and were out of use, and the fighters had to leave the damaged armored vehicles in order to find shelter. The remnants of the retreating companies barely reached their bases, leaving the wounded on the battlefield, unable to remove them from the lethal fire. Peretz, who was in one of the armored vehicles, was killed in this battle on the 14th of Nissan 5708 (April 23, 1948). He was one of the 38 dead on this difficult day. Twenty-two years old. Peretz was laid to rest in a mass grave in the Kiryat Anavim military cemetery. His memory was included in the book “To Their Image”, published by Kibbutz Tel Yosef. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
