Hausknecht, Meir (Marcel)

Son of Miltha and Arnold. He was born on 17.6.1925 in Czernowitz, Romania to an affluent family. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the situation of the Romanian Jews worsened considerably and the Meir family also reached distress. In April 1941 he was sent to Palestine as part of the Youth Aliyah. In Israel, he was first referred to agriculture in Kfar Yehoshua, but was soon transferred to Kibbutz Galil Yam and was sent to study at the Max Payne vocational school in Tel Aviv. Where he stood out as a diligent and diligent student, and soon learned the Hebrew language and settled in the company of the school. The news that began to arrive from European countries about the Holocaust that haunted the Jews of the continent gave him no peace and before he was eighteen he enlisted in the British army, the engineering corps, to give his share to the war effort. On January 13, 1943, he died of meningitis and was buried at a military ceremony in the cemetery of Nahalat Yitzhak near Tel Aviv, where he left parents who immigrated to Israel after the end of World War II and only then learned about The death of a son at a gathering held by the youth group on the day of his burial was announced by planting a plot in the Galilee forest in memory of him.