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Laufer, Pinchas

Laufer, Pinchas


Pinchas, the son of Rachel and Mendel, was born on March 2, 1929, in the city of Podhajce, in the Ternopol district of Eastern Galicia, where he was educated in an elementary school. In the early years of World War II, Eastern Galicia was annexed to the Soviet Union, and the Ukrainians were again reoccupied, and later the alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union was broken. In mid-1941 the Germans entered the Ukraine and conquered Galicia. In the ghetto that was built in Podhajce in July 1941, some 4,000 people were imprisoned and a labor camp was set up alongside it From the improvement in Ts”g 1,000 Jews were deported to the Belzec death camp, and a second action took place in October. The ghetto and the camp in Podhajce were liquidated in June 1943. Most of the people who managed to escape to the surrounding forests were caught by Ukrainians and killed. By the end of the war almost all the Jews of Galicia had been exterminated. In 1943 Pinchas’s family was sent to an “unknown place” and since then he has not seen her again. He managed to escape, joined the partisans who aided the Russian Red Army and fought in the forests of Ukraine. At the end of the war Pinchas joined the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz, which was founded in the city of Gleiwitz in Poland, and then continued his pioneering training in Germany. On 17 March 1946, he and his friends immigrated to Eretz Israel on the illegal immigrant ship “Tel Hai”. The ship was purchased in France by the Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet of the Haganah, and sailed from Marseilles with 736 Ma’apilim on board the “Nocham” (United Pioneering Youth) and members of various movements. The sailors, who carried a Hebrew flag and a banner with the ship’s name, were forcibly removed to buses and taken to the detention camp at Atlit, and upon his release from Atlit, Pinchas joined Kibbutz Eilon in the western Upper Galilee To the Lebanese border, and he did his work on the kibbutz with great vigor, initiative, and boundless enthusiasm, at the end of 1947, following a decision In the end of March 1948 Pinchas participated in escorting convoys from the coastal plain to besieged Jerusalem, where he joined the Palmach, The convoy that accompanied Pinhas was supposed to be conducted differently from the previous convoys, due to the lessons learned – was supposed to go out in the dark when a Palmach force secured Sha’ar Hagai before it arrived. But the convoy was delayed, and upon leaving the area on the morning of the 20th of Adar 2, 5708 (March 31, 1948) was discovered by Arabs, who called for reinforcements, while some of the convoy’s vehicles sank in the mud on the road between the Hulda Forest and today’s Mishmar David Where the battle was fought between the convoy’s defenders and the Arab force, which included fighters from an Iraqi force and Arabs from Ramle who were based in the village of Hulda, while Pinchas was wounded while running to the armored car in order to get a machine gun. All his balls, he went on fire with the armored vehicle, nineteen in his fall, Pinchas was one of twenty fighters who fell in this battle. And the water in the cemetery in Hulda The space is a “last scion.” The last survivor of the Holocaust is Holocaust survivors who have survived the last vestige of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration and extermination camps. / Or on the run and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / or fighting alongside members of the underground or partisanNimes in Nazi-occupied territory, during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.

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