Indyk, Haim-Ya’akov

Son of Attia and Ezra, was born in 1923 in the city of Marmaros-Sighet in northern Transylvania (Romania) on the border of Carpathian Russia, which had a large Jewish community. He studied at the Charedim and at the elementary school and afterward in Yeshiva, and soon after the outbreak of World War II he studied tailoring and worked in this profession. In 1940, when Hungarian rule was restored to its city, Romanian anti-Semitism was replaced by slightly enhanced Mayary anti-Semitism, but it did not waive the obligation of the Jewish citizen to serve in the army. When the Germans seized power and the Jews were taken out of the army to be sent to labor camps in Ukraine, Jakob fled and hid in the Carpathian forests until the Russians entered and the Romanian regime returned. He took the escape route on foot and came to Italy to immigrate to Israel. He immigrated to Cyprus and was allowed to immigrate to Israel in 1947. In the Land of Israel he continued to work in his profession, and after the war of independence he enlisted and was Simcha that he was rewarded after serving in the army. And in particular he was proud of being able to serve in the Givati ​​Brigade. He took part in the battles of Latrun and then in the breakthrough to the Negev. He excelled in courage. On the 19th of Tishrei, 19.10 1948), during the operation “Yoav” to break the road to the Negev, he fell during an assault on enemy strongholds in Hulikat and was brought to rest in the cemetery. He left behind a wife, Chaya.