Gronsky, Ephraim (“Motzu”)

Son of-Eliahu-Ze’ev and Malka. He was born on June 2, 1921, in Helgovce, Czechoslovakia. He was an old man – the fourteenth to his parents. He graduated from elementary school and high school. He spent two years (1941-1943) in a military labor camp in Slovakia. In 1944 he managed to rescue the two daughters of his sister who perished in the extermination camp from the Gestapo. He hid them in the mountains until the liberation by the Russians. At the end of the war he decided, together with his brother, to change his name (Gruenwald), which had a German ring, and they were given the name “Grunski” whose ring was Slavic. In 1946 he founded a training company in Prague called “The Way”. He immigrated to Israel in 1949. He was drafted into the IDF in December 1950. On the 11th of Av 5714 (10.8.1954) he fell in the line of duty and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.