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Kleinzweiler, Dov

Kleinzweiler, Dov


Son of Shoshana and Menahem, was born on 18.12.1926 in the town of Czerni Donayets, between the Tatra mountains in western Galicia and a family of Sanz Hasidim who were attracted to Zionism. He excelled in his studies in a Polish elementary school and in Jewish studies in a “cheder” and loved poetry and painting. From his childhood he longed to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, who studied carpentry at a pioneering training program of Hechalutz Hamizrachi and emigrated to Israel. At the beginning of World War II, he fled with his family to the Russian occupation zone in eastern Galicia, and in illegal trade, the only source of income for most refugees, helped support the family. After a year they were deported to forced labor in a Siberian forest and Dov, who was 14, worked as an adult. When her mother was arrested for refusing to send her small children to a Soviet school, Dov and his younger brother managed to release her from prison by doubling the output of their work. He finished elementary school at evening classes and began working in the carpentry shop. When the family was released from the camp following the Stalin-Sikorski agreement, he worked in a carpentry shop in a nearby town, and later – together with his parents and brother – in a cotton processing plant near Bukhara. The mother died of typhus, and Dov and his brothers and sister did not join the convoys of Polish refugees who had left Russia because they did not want to leave the sick father. After the father’s death, Dov became a guardian and a breadwinner for his two brothers and sister, and finally they entered a Polish orphanage where he helped managers run the institution and engaged in social activities among the children. The managers brought him and the brother to a convoy of children sent to India, but in the transitional institutions on the way the anti-Semitic managers discriminated against them and even when they reached Mashhad, Iran, the convoy’s manager said to bring them back to Russia, but he and his brother were later rescued by the Jewish Agency emissary who transferred them to Tehran. There was a bear among the few who observed observance. He even prepared his brother for bar mitzvahs and gave him a celebration, and when the brother began to nurse him in his patients and even sold his mother’s wedding ring, the precious souvenir that he kept, to save the brother’s life. When they arrived in Palestine in March 1943, they were put into a transit camp at Beit Halutzot in Jerusalem. From there, Dov moved to the Youth Aliyah Society in Mikvah Israel, worked in the carpentry shop, worked in furniture manufacturing, and the Youth Aliyah Bureau assigned him help in theoretical training in the profession. Dov also excelled in general studies and Jewish studies in the school and was among those unique individuals in the example of personal influence and persuasion of his friends helped educators to restore the human image of the wild boys with hardships. He also participated in the kibbutz nuclear union, worked in painting, published articles and poems in the company newsletter, organized plays and parties, read literature and poetry, and especially excelled in stage talent. One of the counselors suggested that he enter the Habima studio, but he wanted to continue on his way to life on the kibbutz. Dov grew up with a core for a year of service in Kfar Etzion and was accepted as a permanent member. At first he worked in carpentry, building, and later furniture manufacturing. He was one of the best employees and was active in the life of the group, at work and in society. He joined the ranks of the Haganah and joined the Mikvah Israel through the training of Gadna and Kfar Etzion. He participated in training, was sent to the Commanders’ course, and afterwards he guided the local people in this service and was very Simcha when he managed to call a light signal with Ma’ale Hahamisha. The village in the War of Independence served as the commander of a position in the eastern section, which was responsible for broadcasting between the Gush Katif points on the Sabar radio and broadcast almost daily peace deployments and announcements to the mothers and children evacuated to Jerusalem. Who, before the last, parted from his injured brother in the hospital with words of encouragement And faith in victory, on the last day, The day of the fall of Kfar Etzion, on May 13, 1948, he finished his morning broadcast to Jerusalem, where he announced the enemy’s damage to the property and property, ended with “strong spirit” and returned to his position. (17.11.1949) was brought to rest with the rest of the victims of the Gush in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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