Luger, Jacob

Son of Perl and Yosef, was born on November 4, 1928, in a village in the region of Carpathos (then Czechoslovakia) and was raised and raised in a farming parents’ home in the vicinity of an established Jewish community. Upon the Nazi occupation he was taken with his parents to an extermination camp but remained alive. After the Nazi extermination he joined the Gordonia youth movement and the “Aliya” youth group. He sailed to Israel on a convoy of “Youth Aliyah” on September 30, 1947. In the Alumat group in the Lower Galilee, he quickly became involved in the life of the country and the agriculture as a veteran, and found his place in the cowshed. He liked the people of the farm and was very fond of the children. In the winter of 1948, when the War of Independence broke out, he repeated his demands for a full mobilization, and participated in operations around the Tabor and in the defense of Kibbutz Gesher, and then enlisted in the “Barak” battalion of the Golani Brigade and embarked on a campaign against the Syrian invader in the Jordan Valley. To the Jordan Valley on 16 May 1948, took control of several outposts in the area, but were stopped by our forces in Zemach, and on May 18 the Syrians launched an attack on a plant with the help of artillery and tanks. The police and the defenders retreated under Syrian fire towards Degania, and for many hours stood with his friends in the defense of a plant with light and light weapons against Sheri Jenny enemy. On T Iyar (18/05/1948), when the fighters were concentrated in retreat at the school in the village, were killed in an enemy shell. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Degania Aleph.