Klein, Avraham (Avri)

He was born in the town of Mikhalovce, eastern Slovakia, on February 7, 2727. He studied in an elementary school and in “Hadarim” and as a youth he was overcome by the horrors of war and annihilation. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, he joined the Hashomer Hatzair group of the Lehavot Haviva battalion in Bratislava, and together with his fellow members of the hachshara, And arrived in Israel in July 1946. When he arrived, he joined the nucleus at Kibbutz Ein Shemer and stayed there for eight months, then moved with his friends to the “Herut” Yad Mordechai was also the first victim to defend the place when he was hit directly by a mortar shell during the first hours of the great earthquake On the 18th of Iyar 5708 (May 18, 1948). He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Yad Mordechai