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Helinger, Erich

Helinger, Erich


The son of Hilda and Otto, was born on October 18, 1924 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, finishing five elementary school classes and four high school classes, and when the Nazi regime took control of Austria, After training years in the youth movement in one of the kibbutzim, he worked as a construction worker around Haifa, where he enlisted in the Haganah After stopping the invasion of the Jordan Valley, our forces took the initiative and attacked the Gilboa area. On the night of June 2-3, the “Carmeli” brigade occupied Jenin and occupied the outposts that control the city, and the Iraqi army, which moved to Samaria after its failure in the Jordan Valley, He fell in battle on May 3, 1948. On the 20th of Av 5710 (3.8.1950), he was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Hermon, Herzl in Jerusalem.

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