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Friedman, Moshe

Friedman, Moshe


Moshe, son of Esther and father, was born on July 1, 1927 in Lithuania, in the city of Siauliai, where he was educated in an elementary school and continued to high school in his city in the spirit of tradition and Zionism. In 1940, Lithuania was annexed to the Soviet Union, when the Hebrew educational institutions were closed and most of the cultural and social organizations were liquidated On June 24, 1941, Lithuania was annexed to the Soviet Union, , During the Second World War, the Germans conquered Lithuania, and only a few thousand Jews managed to escape into Soviet territory prior to the occupation. In July 1943, when the Russian Red Army approached Lithuania, the Germans managed to transfer some 10,000 Jews who remained in the camp to the concentration camps of Dachau, Kaufering and Stutthof in Germany. And was liberated from the Dachau camp by the American army, and after the liberation he passed through the remains of the remains to the south of Italy, and at the end of 1945 he boarded the ship “Berl Katzenelson” (“Dimitrios”). The ship, organized by the Haganah’s Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet, sailed from the port of Lavarion on November 17, 1945, carrying 211 immigrants on board, most of them from Greece and the rest from Eastern Europe. Among the immigrants were former concentration camp inmates, former POWs and members of the Youth Aliyah. During the voyage, the ship encountered a severe storm, but on November 22, 1945, it managed to reach the shores of Shefayim, where, with the help of Palmach fighters, most of the immigrants were removed. Arab fishermen were arrested by the Israeli fighters, but one fisherman escaped and reported to the authorities. When the British arrived, most of the immigrants were able to assimilate in the surrounding settlements. Only a few immigrants were arrested and interned in the Atlit detention camp. On November 24, 1945, the Palmach attacked Sidney Ali and the Coastal Police in Givat Olga, settled in the center of the country and found a livelihood in the polytheist sector, and at the end of 1947 married Tova. And was attached to the “Negev” Brigade, the 12th Brigade in the Hagana, established in February 1948 on the basis of the Palmach battalions operating in the Negev. Its fighters came from all over the country and at the beginning of the war protected the Negev settlements and the supply routes and secured the water pipe to the Negev. Moshe has been training in Kibbutz Nir Am in the north-western Negev, and since then has participated in the defense of the area – Kibbutz Ruhama, Kibbutz Nir Am and the water sources to the Negev. In this area, he fell in battle on May 19, 1948. Moshe was twenty-one years old when he died and was buried in Nir Am, and in December 1950 he was laid to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery. Survived widow and brother.

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