Gross, Zvi (Fred)

Son of Klara and Yitzhak, was born on 10.4.1930 in Mannheim, Germany to an assimilated family. The family remained in its seat until the seventh year of Nazi rule and in 1940 they were deported, including Fred, to the De Gour camp in France. Fred managed to escape from the camp and join the French underground. After the liberation he entered a Jewish youth institution and was educated in Zionism. He immigrated to Israel on the Haganah, was arrested in Cyprus and was released six months later, in 1947, on the basis of a decision by the Mandatory government to permit the immigration of young people from the age of 18. Fred arrived in Jerusalem, where he was interested in the ” In the city, who raised him as a son and taught him the profession. Fred showed a talent for the profession and specialized in it. His older brother, who had earlier emigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen, had agreed with him that Freddy would join him in the United States immediately after receiving the entry permit, but that he had become assimilated to a national Jew. When Freddy’s entry permit to the American consulate in Haifa, Freddy was already in touch with Israel and was actually drafted in. Fred fell in the defense of Jerusalem on the 16th of May 1948. He was sent to the police academy and there he was wounded. He was transferred to the hospital and died a few hours later and was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. On the fifteenth of Cheshvan 5711 (15.11.1951) he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.