Levin, Shaul (Sasha)

Son of Miriam and Zvi, was born in 1924 in the town of Zdunska-Wola in Congress Poland. A descendant of a family referring to the home of Rabbi Mendele of Kotzk. Shaul visited the cheder, completed elementary school, and prepared himself for a working life. Meanwhile, the war broke out. In time Shaul managed to escape alone to Russia. In Tashkent he was accepted as an apprentice in a military school, and when Hitler invaded Russia he joined the Soviet army and served in Tashkent. Later he took part in the Battle of Stalingrad and on the victory journey from there to Berlin. At the end of the war he returned to Poland, and when he could not find his family alive, he abandoned the Diaspora and went on the “Bericha route.” He spent two years in the DP camps in Italy, and only in 1947 did he board the Shabtay Lozinski. In December 1947 he enlisted as a veteran soldier, served in the Golani brigade and participated in many battles: conquering a plant and a battle for cereal, the liberation of Haifa, and the bloody system of the Triangle. With the resumption of fighting after the first truce, the Iraqis aggressively attacked the line of our forces north of Jenin. In view of the enemy’s superiority, our forces had to retreat and set up a new line on the Gilboa ridge. He fell to the military cemetery in Afula on Tuesday, July 10, 1948. Upon his fall, the last page in the history of the entire family was destroyed and it was the last survivor.