Freeman, Menachem

Son of Moshe and Carolina. He was born on December 22, 1938 in the city of Jozov, Poland. A baby was at the outbreak of World War II and the parents did their best to protect him and his little brother in the way of their wanderings and sufferings. At the end of the war, the family came to Katowice and from there to the American occupation zone. But in 1949 the two boys decided to leave Germany and immigrate to Israel without their parents and accompanied by one of their teachers, one of the main activists of Youth Aliyah, arrived in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel. A year later, the parents and children left the kibbutz and came to live with their parents in harsh conditions. After graduating from elementary school, Menahem decided to help his parents with the burden of earning a living. He began working as a clerk and then studied the profession of a metal-engraver. He was active in a national youth movement and served as a youth counselor in the Betar movement, but he voluntarily volunteered to serve in the homeland at the age of 17 in April 1956. His frail health soon became evident, 8th of Tevet 5707 (1.1.1957) fell and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul