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Mintz, Moshe

Mintz, Moshe


Son of Trude and Joseph, was born on June 28, 1925, in Germany, and attended secondary school until Nazi decrees forced him to stop his studies.In 1940, the family immigrated to Israel on an “Atlantic” ship seized by the British and deported to Mauritius. Almost four years before his volunteering for the Jewish Brigade in February 1945, and his departure with her to the end of the victory campaign against the Germans and the rescue mission. He kept his impressions in the diary he took with him during the war, and in the month of 1948 he joined the Givati ​​Brigade On March 17, 1948, he returned from the village of Gedera to Tel Nof, where members of the M’ghar gang seized the school next to the junction, placed an electric mine on the road leading to Tel Nof and operated it when the armored vehicle At night, the Givati ​​fighters raided the school and blew it up, and the next day the bodies of the burned armored personnel were rescued and brought to rest in the military cemetery in Rehovot.

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