Jacobovitz, Shimon (Mirek)
Son of Sara Jacobovitz and Zvi Weinbeck, was born on April 28, 2626, in the village of Kobler, Czechoslovakia. As a child he studied in the “cheder” and in the elementary school in the village. At the beginning of World War II, he reached the village of Raffini, in the Czech Republic, where he lived until 1940 and was named after his mother, who was given Hungary – a gift for his rescue. Shimon was taken to a detention camp in Budapest and remained there until 1942. He died from his father and began working to support the mother. After two years he was taken to the ghetto and sent to the Auschwitz death camp. There he lost his mother and brother. He was later transferred to the Buchenwald, Dachau, and Buchenwald camps, and was sent back to Buchenwald and Buchenwald, where he worked in German military factories. Upon his discharge he returned to the Czech Republic with a group of youth, became seriously ill with typhoid fever and after recuperation learned the electricity profession. As a youth counselor he fled with his comrades to Germany, where they established a group affiliated with “Nehem” (United Pioneer Youth), where he moved with the nuclear pioneers to Italy and stayed there for about a year, in the framework of the MZB. (A European expedition in Europe – a nickname for the Haganah organization in Europe) and immigrated to Israel on March 12, 1947 on the Shabtay Lozinski ship. He settled in Jerusalem, worked as an electrician in the Jerusalem Electric Company and was a member of the Haganah. With the UN General Assembly resolution on the partition of the country and the outbreak of hostilities, he volunteered for the War of Independence and took part in the battles of Jerusalem in the framework of the “Moriah” battalion of the Etzioni Brigade (Jerusalem Brigade.) His last battle was on 23 Adar I 5708 1948) near Atarot, Shimon was in the department that placed an ambush for Arab transport on the Jerusalem-Ramallah road, and on its way back to Atarot the department was attacked by an Arab mob, and most of the fighters were killed and Shimon was buried in Sanhedria cemetery On Thursday, A (6.9.1951) was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem
