Maislik, Jacob
Jacob, the son of Rivka and Mordecai, was born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia, in the city of Munkács, now in the Ukrainian Republic, where he received a thorough education. In November 1938, after the German occupation of Hungary by the Germans in World War II, the situation of the Jews worsened considerably. In Munkács, 12,000 Jews were concentrated in two ghettos, to which Jews from nearby villages were also brought. As in the other ghettos of Hungary, Munkács had its “nature”, where Jews were tortured to discover the hiding places of their valuables.The liquidation of the Jews of the Carpathian district began in mid-May 1944. Most of the Jews in the district, including a Jew In 1944 Jacob was sent to a concentration camp and was imprisoned there for a year until the liberation, during which time his parents and family were lost, and Yaakov joined a group of illegal immigrants who immigrated to Israel in early 1947. On the beach near Ashdod, By the British and awaiting their deportation to Cyprus. While waiting, Ya’akov managed to convince the British that he was a Palestinian, and a few days later, on March 1, 1947, he was released. Yaakov settled in Ramat Gan. He worked as a laborer. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, Yaakov was one of the first recruits to the field corps in Ramat Gan, serving in the 21st Battalion of the Carmeli Brigade, the Haganah’s 2nd Brigade, and was proud of the success of his company in the following months. In June 1948, Yaakov participated in a battle in Rosh Hanikra, Rosh Hanikra, where a historic passage to Lebanon was passed, was a border station and a British police force that was transferred to Arab control On May 23, 1948, at the end of Operation Cast Lead “son of Ami”, the fighters of “Carmeli” occupied the place to advance the Lebanese invasion army and the Arab “Salvation Army” under the command of Kawkji. On Wednesday, June 11, 1948, the Arabs who attacked Lebanon managed to recapture Rosh Hanikra. On the same day, Carmeli fighters stormed the area and succeeded in returning it to Israeli control. In this battle Jacob fell, which was stationed on the roof of the police building. Twenty-two years old. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya. Yaakov’s relatives say that during his last vacation he shared with them his feeling that this was his last vacation. They tried to reassure him before they parted, and two days after returning to his base he fell in battle. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
