Joseph, the son of Rachel and Yehoshua, was born on August 20, 1918 in Poland, in Przemysl, in the district of Lodz, Galicia. He grew up in a Zionist family. From his youth, he was a member of the socialist Zionist movement Dror. Between the two world wars Przemysl was ruled by independent Poland. The 19,400 Jews who lived in the city had a diverse political life and also operated religious, cultural and welfare institutions. The severe economic crisis of the 1930s affected the agriculture of Poland and exacerbated anti-Semitic sentiments and pushed the feet of the Jews, who were considered to have a key position in economic life. They suffered from an anti-Jewish economic boycott and growing pogroms. After the occupation of Poland by Germany at the beginning of World War II the situation of the Jews deteriorated greatly. They were concentrated in the ghettos, the able ones in which they were sent to labor camps, and in the following years most of the Polish Jews were sent to extermination camps. By the end of the war almost all the Jews of Przemysl had perished. Joseph was drafted into the Polish army before the outbreak of World War II, and when the occupation of Poland in September 1939 crossed the border into Hungary. In Hungary he pretended to be a Christian and worked hard at clearing forests. Thanks to his camouflage and resourcefulness, he survived. He spent some of his time in captivity, and during this period his soul and body were forced to adapt to the hardest work. Later he would say that this was the most suitable physical training for his future. At the end of the war, he saw only one way: immigration to Israel. He preferred not to visit his hometown so as not to witness the destruction of his home and family. Instead he joined a training commune in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. He was one of the first to arrive in Italy, where he was one of the founders of the training commune in Pernzola. The members of the nucleus, which was intended for young survivors of the Holocaust, were later the founders of the “rebel” in Radju. Joseph made his way to Eretz Yisrael on the small cargo ship “Enzo Sereni”. The ship, organized by the Haganah’s Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet, sailed from the port of Vado-Ligure in Italy on January 9, 1946, carrying 908 Ma’apilim, mostly young members of various youth movements. High density, stormy seas and water and food shortages caused its passengers great suffering. Not far from the shores of the country, the ship was discovered by the destroyers of the British Royal Navy. “Enzo Sereni” was the first illegal immigrant ship seized by the British after World War II. The ship was forced to enter the port of Haifa, where the British soldiers took over the immigrants and led them to the Atlit detention camp. A few months later, upon his release from the detention camp, Yosef joined a group of about 50 members of Kibbutz Gesher in the Jordan Valley. He made an effort to acquire knowledge of the Hebrew language and to assimilate into the life of the country, work, society, and kibbutz life. Despite the difficulty of adapting to the new life, he remained faithful to his pioneering education and was a partner in the realization. When the War of Independence broke out, Yosef was not satisfied with his position – he was entrusted with the searchlight – and a claim that he would be sent to guard the fields. When we gave him, he was attached to the 102nd Battalion of the Golani Brigade, the No. 1 Brigade in the Haganah. He was proud of the role he was given, showed discretion and displayed courage and dedication in defending his kibbutz. Due to the strategic location of Kibbutz Gesher – one of the oldest and most important Jordan crossings in the country, a river bridge (Jisr al-Majam’am), the members of the agriculture suffered from the harassment of the Arabs of the area from the beginning of the War of Independence. During the war there were fierce battles in the area and the kibbutz (now the “old Gesher Yard” site) was severely damaged and later moved to a point slightly removed from the Jordan River. On April 4, 1948, when Yosef and his comrades left for the fields, an Arab gang ambushed them and opened fire at them. Joseph, who rushed to help his wounded friend, fell into the hands of the bullAnd brutally murdered. Thirty years old. Joseph was laid to rest in the Gesher cemetery. Yosef’s friends eulogized him: “Your speech is still ringing in your ears, where Yiddish and Hebrew have been mixed together, yet his image is still hovering before your eyes, and the brain is not suffering the thought that there will be no more walking within us … to describe him, who did not know him? Those with smiling wrinkles, this figure in her mild walk had a hint of limpness, and whose words combined a learned cynicism with a healthy humor saturated with experience and acute contemplation, this figure whose most telling outline is the first and last news coming from the field that ‘Jacob was wounded and Yosel remained next to him.’ No one would be surprised at him, about Yossel, so understandable was the behavior Cruel of things as revealed later. ” 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.
