Friedensohn, Chaim-Hanoch
Son of Luba and Yaakov-Yitzhak, was born on 20.11.1930 in the town of Sadek, Poland. He grew up in Lodz. At the outbreak of World War II he was ten years old. He was brought into the Lodz ghetto, diligently continued his studies and read books extensively. Because of an intestinal spasm he was hospitalized, he was hospitalized. When the hospital was surrounded by a Nazi death squad, he managed to escape disguised as an adult. Upon the liquidation of the ghetto, he and his family were taken to the Auschwitz camp. His parents were sent to crematoria and sent to forced labor until he was released by soldiers of the American army. For a while he worked in Germany as a quartermaster on behalf of the Youth Committee. He joined training in France, and in 1947 he immigrated to Israel on Aliyah Bet on the illegal immigrant ship. When he boarded the ship in Haifa, he was wounded in the blood feud with the British and exiled to Cyprus, where he worked in the camp post office. After a year he arrived in Israel and began working in a printing press. Upon the outbreak of the War of Independence he accepted the enlistment order, served in the Carmeli Brigade, and after two weeks of training was sent to positions in the new commercial center in Haifa. His battalion participated in the conquest of Haifa and the Arab villages in the Lower Galilee. He was one of the first to advance toward the police building under a barrage of bullets during the conquest of Acre and later took part in battles in the Western Galilee, Sha’ar Hagolan, and the occupation of Jenin. From there he was sent to Rosh Hanikra. After undergoing another series of training, his battalion went to Operation Brosh to destroy the Syrian bridgehead in Mishmar Hayarden. When he was attacked from a landing, he was sent along with another friend to hasten the help of the kidnappers. In this battle, during the retreat, he was hit in the head by a bullet and fell to the ground on Tuesday, July 10, 1948. His body was found only after the outpost was taken back by our forces and brought to rest in the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.
