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Lajstein, Yehudit

Lajstein, Yehudit

Yehudit, daughter of Mindel (Mina) and Emanuel Lajstein, was born in Vienna, Austria, on April 26, 1928. She graduated from elementary school and began studying at the Gymnasium named in memory of the late Rabbi Tzaf Chayaot in Vienna. In December 1939, she immigrated to Israel with the last group from Austria, which saved her life. She studied at the Ma’aleh High School in Jerusalem and then moved to Tel Aviv where she first worked as a seamstress and later as a clerk. Yehudit was filled with patriotism and refusing to enjoy the privileges of an only child, joined the ranks of the Haganah. On the 25th of Iyar, June 3, 1948, at the age of twenty, she was killed while bombing the enemy over Ramat Gan from the air, and was brought to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak military cemetery.

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