Haaz, Peter
Son of Rudi and Gertrude. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on March 28, 1920. After graduating from the Gymnasium, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and was accepted as a student at the Hebrew Technion in Haifa, and at the outbreak of World War II he was one of the first volunteers in the British army. 1942 A special unit of the “Special Investigations Group” was set up in the desert area of Egypt, and was joined with eleven other Jewish youths from Germany and two German prisoners who declared their opposition to the Hitler regime. , The unit was invited to participate in a raid on the enemy airfields Was forced to lead a raid on German vehicles to transport them through the German roadblocks and was forced to raid the airport at Darna near Tobruk on June 13, 1942. After a tedious journey and after he managed to cross several checkpoints, Near the airport, in the first truck, one of the German POWs was sitting next to him and another of the Palestinians was sitting in the back, and under the tarpaulins there was a raid squad, and when the truck reached the checkpoint the German prisoner fell under some pretext and disappeared. Because the mission had failed, he rolled a grenade into the pile of ammunition Shit, the truck exploded, destroyed part of the headquarters building and caused casualties in the enemy camp. The fate of the missing became clear only after many months; most were killed or taken prisoner; Peter was killed in the explosion. His name was immortalized in the books “Derech Lechamim” and “Vanishing Cases.” The space is a machete – a space whose burial place is unknown
