Hershkowitz, Aharon (Arnello)

Was born on January 6, 1922 in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, where he graduated from a high school for commerce and prepared for a peaceful civil life.The horrors of the Nazi-allied regime uprooted the belief in the future of the Jews in Romania, The second world set out on the “escape route” to Italy and sailed to Israel in 1946 on the Haganah ship, where he learned to speak and write Hebrew and wrote in his letters to his parents. In November 1946 he was released from the camp and in his letters he expressed his admiration for all his eyes, and settled in Givatayim and worked as a construction worker and liked his acquaintances. He served in one of the battalions in the Alexandroni Brigade and participated in all the combat operations of his unit (the conquest of Yaasur, Kakun, etc.) In the letters of reassurance to his worried parents, he wrote: “There is certainly no war in the insurance company, The Nazis will pass this war. We do not have two ways. We will win and continue the work. “Death on the battlefield is no worse than death in the German camps, but in battle for the homeland there is a greater chance of a good life.” During the Operation Horev, a “liquidation” operation was carried out against ” An Egyptian brigade was stationed on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya, and the Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took control of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. (28.12.1948) was buried in Faluja On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (December 8, 1949), he was transferred to eternal rest in Beit- Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery.