Haimovitz, Yosef

Son of Hinda and Shlomo, was born in 1926 in a small town in Transylvania, Romania. At the outbreak of World War II, he was a 13-year-old boy who had not yet graduated from elementary school and was uprooted. He was sent to various labor and extermination camps and reached the gate of the furnace in Auschwitz. At the end of the war he arrived after many wanderings to the Bergen-Belsen camp. He joined the Betar company in the area and prepared to immigrate to Israel, where he became a shoemaker in 1947. He joined the members of the “Margolin” group in the Jordan Guard and became a land laborer On the eve of the second truce, the Syrians attacked Mishmar Hayarden, The colony, which fell on Tuesday, June 10, 1948, about half an hour after the truce entered into force. On the 12th of Kislev 5712 (12.12.1949) he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak