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Litvas (Litwas), Avraham (“Eddie”)

Litvas (Litwas), Avraham (“Eddie”)

Son of Nahum Zvi Yehuda. After the Nazis came to power in 1936, Abraham succeeded in immigrating to Eretz Israel after receiving a certificate from the Committee for the Rescue of German Jewry, while his wife and daughter fled Germany and moved to Riga, the capital of Latvia. They plan to join him in Israel when possible, and at first Avraham worked in the quarries near Jerusalem and then as a driver in the “Karei Masha” cooperative, and Avraham paid his salary to his wife and daughter. During the bloody riots of 1936-1939 on 18 Shvat (February 7, 1939), he left the convoy with two additional trucks of the cooperative on the way to Jerusalem. His truck went over a landmine, planted by Arabs. He was killed on the spot and laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery in the Haganah and Haapala section. He left a wife and a daughter. His name was immortalized in the book “Kofar Hishuv”.

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