Hesman, Moshe

Born in the town of Borislav, Eastern Galicia, Poland, on November 27, 1927, he was educated in high school, but in his youth, in the Nazi invasion of Poland, he was cut off from his home, fled to the Soviet Union and served in the Red Army. He managed to move to Italy, where he immigrated to Israel on the illegal immigrant ship “Latrun”, was captured by the British and exiled to Cyprus, and was imprisoned there only seven months later, on August 15, 1947, He worked in his profession as a metalworker, and in December he joined the ranks of the Givati ​​Brigade and fought in the vicinity of Tel Aviv, near Mikvah Israel and Yazur, and was among the defenders of the house Jewish National Fund in Israel (an isolated house on the road to Tel Aviv-Jerusalem, near Beit Dagon). Moses fell Operation “Maccabi” breakthrough Jerusalem, near Latrun on Wednesday Iyar (13/05/1948). His burial place is unknown. A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In June 2005, in the framework of the investigation of the missing persons unit in the IDF, it was found that Moshe was buried in a mass grave along with Yaakov (Yankele) Snow-White (Schneeweis) at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl.