Klein, Moshe (Rudolph)

Was born on March 18, 1929 in the city of Satu Mare, Romania, and even before he began attending the Holles-Francais elementary school in his city, he had already helped his parents in their shoe shop. He joined the “Hanoar Hazioni” movement in the Second World War, and was sent to the ghetto with his family, and was later taken to the “children’s camp” in the Auschwitz concentration camp. To find his family, and although he did find his two older sisters, he learned from his neighbors that his parents had perished in the Holocaust Moshe and his two sisters arrived in the city of Neustadt-Holstein Germany. There he studied at a school set up by UNRWA, the UN institution for help and rehabilitate victims of war. At that time, volunteered to Moses Irgun and which has military training. Moshe arrived on the shores of the country in June 1948 aboard the Irgun’s Altalena, carrying about 900 new immigrants and members of the Irgun and military equipment, and in a battle that developed between the Provisional Government and the Etzel, Moshe was wounded in the leg; When he recovered from his injury, he enlisted in the IDF, underwent military training at Tel Hashomer, served in the Alexandroni Brigade and was stationed in a camp near Kibbutz Ein Shemer on the 28th of Tishrei 5709 (October 28, 1948) After his body was found, he was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Afula, where his name was immortalized in the Torah scroll in memory of fallen IDF soldiers during the War of Independence.