Epstein, Victor

Son of Samuel and Leah. Born in Melbourne, Australia, on February 7, 1950, he was born in Melbourne, Australia, to a Jewish family with a deep national consciousness, even when he was young. Immediately after the Six-Day War, when he was 17, he decided to stay in Israel with his friends and friends and to try to build his life in Israel, since it was a little time before his friends began to relate to him. As one of their own, having learned that Victor writes poetry, paints and sculpts, and that he is an intelligent and “mature” boy more than his years. His love and disappointments were recorded on pieces of paper and sometimes in the inner parts of envelopes, which enabled those who did not know him to see what an active and creative actor Victor was, and he came to Israel with ambitions to discover, write, work and create, and these aspirations began to take shape. All of them have been grappling with the question of volunteering for the IDF. His friends opposed the Vietnam War and fought for peace both in the United States and in Australia. However, he did not view the IDF recruitment as an irreconcilable contradiction: “In Israel we will behave like Israelis,” he said, “we have no choice here.” He joined the IDF at the end of July 1968 and volunteered for the Nahal Brigade. From the day he arrived in Israel until his last day, he had undergone a tremendous change: the boy had blossomed in this atmosphere and despite discipline in the army and his resistance to war, he was Simcha in uniform and perhaps especially dressed in them, because he knew that here in Israel he had no choice and that he had to wear the uniform! And continued to study art at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem, and his second dream was to see his parents immigrate to Israel, but when they arrived, Victor was no longer alive. In Av Tsc”t (07/17/1969) fell in the line of duty. He was laid to rest in the cemetery at Kibbutz Gal-On. After his fall, a booklet containing poems from his estate was published – in their original English and partly in Hebrew.