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Kaufman, Zalman

Kaufman, Zalman

Son of Kreindel and Yehuda-Yosef was born on 29.8.1919 in the city of Trnava, Czechoslovakia, and as a member of a Hasidic family, he moved to the Pashcini yeshiva after completing elementary school. He joined the “Torah va – Avodah” movement, where he spent several years, and moved to Budapest, the capital of Hungary, where he lived as an “Aryan” in the movement and his friends. According to a special agreement, they were sent to Spain and eventually transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where he lived in Bergen-Belsen, where he arrived in Switzerland and joined a training kibbutz. Etzion. After Sidolihm of relatives left the farm and tried the way of life in Tel Aviv, but soon, the man responsible for the Kibbutz movement, returned to his farm, where he studied the art of cooking and worked there until his death. At the beginning of winter Independence married. During the siege of the Gush, he was active in maintaining and defending the bloc. On the 5th of Iyar 5708 (13.5.1948), with the outbreak of the armored vehicles of the Arab Legion in Kfar Etzion, he fell along with his wife, Esther On 17 November 1949 he was brought to the rest of the Gush Katif, World at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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