Farkash, Moses-Jacob

Was born on May 22, 1927, in a city in the Czech Republic, in a region that had been handed over to Hungary before the Nazis took control of both countries, and completed his studies and studied the profession of retching before the Holocaust. During the war and the persecution of the Jews, he escaped to Budapest where he was apprehended and sent to the Mauthausen-Gonzkirchen torture and forced labor camp, and he was active in the Dror youth organization. After the war he devoted himself to educational activity and worked as a counselor in a children’s home near Budapest, because of his work He was arrested in Italy, where he joined Hashomer Hatzair and underwent training on behalf of the Haganah and arrived in Israel on May 15, 1948, the day after the establishment of the State of Israel. The first attack on the legion of Latrun in order to break through the road to Jerusalem, the attacking forces encountered better enemy forces and were forced to retreat, and on this day he fell nine days after his arrival in Israel on 24.5.1948 ) His only relatives, his sister and brother-in-law came to Israel after him, but no longer found him among the living. On the 11th of Adar 5702 (28.2.1950) he was brought to eternal rest with the victims of this campaign at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.