Hoffman, Israel-Moshe

Son of Deborah-Ita and Yehoshua was born on the 26th of Iyar 1921 in the village of Zofa, in the Carpatho-Russian part of Marmarosh district (then in Czechoslovakia). He studied at the “Chaderim” and in a government elementary school in Ruthenian language and spent a year and a half with his uncle in Slovakia. Then he studied carpentry and helped his father with his work. With the consent of his parents, he joined the youth movement and served in the branch committee. In 1942 he was drafted into a Hungarian labor company (his place of residence was restored in 1940 to Hungary) and his father was sent to the Auschwitz camp and never returned. In 1944 he was released by the Russians and remained for some time in their service as an interpreter and brought his mother to him. In 1945 he went to the Bergen-Belsen camp, joined the Nacham (United Pioneering Youth) camp, served in the Jewish police in maintaining internal order in the camp, and was known as a devoted and faithful person for his duties. April 1947. Upon his arrival in Eretz Israel, he was transferred immediately to Degania Bet, where he remained after his friends left the group, when he learned that his kibbutz friends were settling in Kibbutz Hahotrim near Haifa. To join them in order to settle with them, and immediately joined the Haganah in the area and in the vicinity. Ein Ghazal long on Sunday Tammuz Independence (08/07/1948). He was buried in Kibbutz Hahotrim. On the 13th of Elul 5703 (13.8.1953), he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.