Meir, Jacob

Born in 1920 in the city of Krakow, Poland, he attended high school there. Upon the German occupation of Poland, he was sent to a labor camp in the city of Laufen, Germany. Jacob survived all the hardships and horrors of the war, and in 1947 immigrated to Israel via Marseilles. At the outbreak of the War of Independence after the United Nations General Assembly decided on November 29, 1947, to divide the country into two states, he was drafted into the army and took part in various battles. – A military patient suffering from severe suffering died on 11 November 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Rehovot.