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Itzkovitz, Zvi (Hershey)

Itzkovitz, Zvi (Hershey)


Son of Zissel and David, was born in 1929 in the town of Tiechowa (Teitz) in the Carpatho-Russian part of the Marmaros district (then in Czechoslovakia) and studied in the “cheder” and the elementary school. The Hungarians, who returned to control the area, sent him and his family with all the Jews on the death train to Auschwitz. From there he was transferred to labor camps in Germany and liberated with the defeat of the Nazis. He stayed in DP camps and joined the kibbutz in training and training. He immigrated to Israel on the ship “The Exodus from Europe 5707”, which was captured by the British and returned to Germany, and returned to Israel in 1948. He joined Kibbutz Dafna and soon joined the defense of the homeland, and on Tuesday, 10 July 1948 ) Was killed when a mine exploded, and a monument in his memory was erected at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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