Katz, Menachem (Kitchy)
Son of Hanna and Aharon, was born on July 22, 1923, in the town of Swalewa near Munkács, Carpathian Russia, where Menahem studied in the “Heder” and in a government elementary school in the Czech Republic. They were arrested and returned after the outbreak of the World War to Hungary, where they were again arrested as espionage suspects, but were immediately released.In the Nazi takeover of Hungary, Menahem was taken to forced labor camps in the vicinity of Hungary, The danger on the front, and in 1944. He survived the Holocaust and after the liberation returned to seek his family, and when he found none of them in their place of residence, He immigrated to Germany and joined the “Tehiya” pioneering training group, absorbed himself in society, studied Hebrew with great passion, and received the pioneering teachings of the pioneering movement, as if he were already one of its citizens. When he moved to Eretz Israel in early 1947, he went with his friends to Kibbutz Ein Gev, where he went to work and did it with pioneering enthusiasm, immediately after the UN General Assembly resolution on the matter, 29.11.1947 On the partition of the land, and the outbreak of the War of Independence, he enlisted on behalf of the agriculture to serve in the Haganah and completed a sabotage course. When six members of the Keshet family went on patrol, they arrived with reinforcements from the Jordan Valley and set out to search for the fallen soldiers, while the enemy was shot in the leg by an enemy bullet in the leg. He was taken to the hospital in Afula and on the 17th of Adar 5748 (March 16, 1948) he died. He was buried in the Ein Gev cemetery. On the 13th of Sivan 5706 (13.6.1955), he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.
