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Galbert, Avraham-Yitzhak

Galbert, Avraham-Yitzhak


Son of Hannah and Shlomo. He was active in the Zionist Poalei Zion Left movement and in 1921 he served in the Polish army and in 1931 immigrated illegally to Eretz Israel and in 1934 raised his wife and two children from Poland and settled in Poland. You were in Herzlia, where he worked as a shoemaker and was an active member of the Haganah and volunteered in the Fire Brigade, and at the end of 1939 he was drafted as a volunteer in the British Army, Managed to transfer guns and ammunition, and handed them over to the Haganah command in Herzliya, where his unit was transferred to the Kalamah Peninsula Where he was taken prisoner after a difficult battle by the Germans and thousands of other soldiers, including about 1500 Jewish soldiers, who were put on the train and on the way from Athens to Salonika, when he slowed down in the mountains, One day, when he learned that a tour of Italian and German soldiers was approaching the village for search purposes, Avraham escaped to the village, Into the woods and took an old hunting rifle with him. While in the forest, a bullet was fired from his rifle and his leg was injured. A few days later he returned to the village but in the meantime he lost a lot of blood and his leg also developed necrosis. On April 25, 1942, he died and was buried in the Christian cemetery in the village, where his name was not written for fear of the Germans.In 1945, his body was transferred to the Central Military Cemetery near Athens, where he was buried as an anonymous soldier. It is doubtful that this is Abraham’s grave, and there was a ceremony for the unveiling of a tombstone, and a new tombstone was engraved with a Hebrew inscription in Hebrew: “From the depths of the past you returned to the lap of faith.” Iyar 5742. Score Location Tomb 3C15 Age 40 Rank Private Unit Pineer Corps. His other name is Abraham-Isaac.

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