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Markovitz, Menachem-Gershon (Maksel)

Markovitz, Menachem-Gershon (Maksel)


Son of Naomi and Naftali, was born on July 17, 1927 in the city of Giessen, Germany. On July 24, 1934, at the age of seven, he immigrated to Israel with his parents. In Haifa he completed the religious elementary school “Netzach Yisrael”. In order to help his parents with their livelihood he was forced to acquire a profession – mechanics – immediately after finishing elementary school. But continued to attend the “Atid” evening school. From his childhood in Germany, he tasted the abuse of the Nazi youth: “I suffered from great troubles in my childhood until I left her,” he wrote in his thesis on his country of origin, but it seemed that he had found reparations for the suffering of childhood. He was a member of the Religious Scouts Association. When he began working at the “Ogen” company in the Haifa port, he became a portentarian and wanted to join the merchant navy, but his parents objected to this and he gave up his desire. He was forced to stop his studies at the outbreak of the War of Independence and enlisted in one of the Carmeli Brigade battalions, guarding positions in Haifa and the surrounding areas, sabotage and other operations against the Arab gangs, and participated in all Haganah training and activities “He was different and excelled in them, and was among the fighters of Mishmar Ha’emek against Kaukji’s” Salvation Army. ” A battle for Ramat Yochanan, when the village of Usha was conquered by the Druze and the Arabs, was shot from ambush and fell on April 16, 1948. As he fell, he ordered his comrades to fight: “Keep defending!” He was twenty-one years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.

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