Katenburg, Martin-Lewis (Tom)

Was born on July 1, 1922, in the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, until the outbreak of World War II, and the Nazi enemy invaded Holland, finishing high school in 1940. His brother was taken by the murderers, After the war he studied at the University of Amsterdam, first chemistry and then psychology, and was interested in music, poetry and painting. The United Nations of 29.11.1947 on the establishment of a Jewish state and the War of the Yishuv to realize the actual independence, volunteered for this war, so that he would no longer be without him as a descendant Slaughter. In December 1947, he traveled to Marseilles without a passport and showed up at a training camp for volunteers for the Haganah. For some reason they nicknamed him “Popoff”. In April 1948, Machal volunteers arrived in Israel in a convoy of volunteers from Machal and went on to serve in the Givati ​​Brigade, and continued to study their books during the leisure hours of the Ten Days before the Second Truce. , Took over from his battalion in the Egyptian sector in the sector of Ashdod, which fell on July 7, 1948. A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.