Finkowitz, Gershon

Was born in 1939 in the city of Galatz, Romania, received a thorough education and was a member of the Zionist youth movement in Romania and was active there in 1939. He immigrated to Israel on the ship “Assimi” in 1939. The ship was caught and returned to the sea, In 1941, he joined the British Army and served in the Engineering Corps Company (Battalion 739), where he completed his platoon and sabotage course and camped with his unit in Lebanon, Egypt, Libya and Italy. Participated in the construction of the bridges on the Po River under enemy fire, and was one of the first to join the Jewish Brigade and served in the Engineering Corps (436), as he laid down mines and dismantled them: He transferred the mines to the Brigade and transferred them to Belgium and the Netherlands and devoted himself to the rescue operations of the prisoners in the camps and sent his commander a request to go to Berlin, but he went to Romania and managed to smuggle his brother and the rest of his family to Israel. (Major) Cohen, who was in charge of the brigade, was attached to his unit, and when the mines were drawn near the village of Warburg, he was critically wounded, and on 31.5.1985 1948) died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. His brother Ephraim fell two weeks later in Sejera.