Melamed, Avraham (Adash)

Son of Yehudit and Benjamin, was born on December 27, 1928 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. He was 11 years old when the Germans occupied the city and was with his parents among the prisoners in the Warsaw ghetto. Avraham was a gifted child who excelled in his studies. A few days before the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, he escaped and hid for several months in the basement of a Polish family until the neighbors denounced him and then he was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and was among its survivors. In 1945 Avraham immigrated to Israel, studied at Mikve Israel Agricultural School, graduated with honors and received a scholarship to study agriculture at the University of California. When Avraham was a student at Mikvah Israel he joined the Haganah and at the beginning of the War of Independence he immediately enlisted for active duty and served in the Givati ​Brigade. He participated in the occupation of the area, was on the front of Jerusalem, and from there moved to the south. On the night of June 2-3, 1948, during the “Pleshet” operation, the Givati ​​forces attacked the Egyptian alignment near the Ashdod Bridge. The assault was halted by heavy enemy fire and the forces were had to retreat. The attack failed, but forced the Egyptians to prepare for the ground and halted their advance northwards. In this battle, Avraham fell on the 25th of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948). He was laid to rest at the Warburg military cemetery.