Farber, Yosef (“Yossi”)

Yosef, son of Dov and Tzilla Farber, was born on February 11, 1937, in Dusseldorf, Germany. In December 1938, when the situation of the Jews in Germany became serious, Yosef was transferred to his aunt in France and the separation was very difficult. She had to move him to a convent at the age of 5. In order to save the child, the monks saw fit to educate him as a Christian, and at six he was sent to a Catholic school where he studied until the end of the war. He, along with a group of Jewish refugee children, was transferred to Palestine and handed over to his parents, and his older brother and younger sister also arrived in Palestine. Yosef was placed in the “Youth Aliyah” institution in the Haifa mansion to make it easier for him to adjust, and when he arrived in Israel he would proudly wear the cross, but after a while he became meticulous in mitzvot. On the second day of the Six-Day War, he was killed, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), when he fell in a battle in Umm Kataf in Sinai, when a mortar shell hit him while he was in the half-track. Yosef was buried in the emergency military cemetery in Bari and was later taken to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.