Kessler, Shaul-Yehuda

Son of Yuta Rachel and Dov, was born on September 26, 1926) in Burgauperand, Transylvania. He completed his studies in an elementary school in Hungary and later attended a yeshiva. After the Nazi occupation of Hungary, Shaul was sent with his family to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where his family perished. In 1946 Shaul emigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem. On February 12, 1948, when he was guarding the position at the Mandelbaum House in the Hungarian neighborhood, he was arrested by the British with three other guards. Shaul was laid to rest at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem, where his name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.