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Moshe (Mois) Burla

Moshe (Mois) Burla

Son of Simcha and Issachar was born in Salonika, Greece, on May 17, 1926. During the Nazi occupation in the Second World War, he was taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he returned to a city that had been emptied of most of its Jews. He immigrated to Israel on the ship “Haviva Reik” and settled in Haifa in 1946. Moshe worked in the Solel Boneh quarry, married and had a daughter, joined the Haganah and in the winter of 1948 fulfilled his duty Guard services in the city of Haifa and the battles for her release. Later he served in the Golani Brigade and participated in battles in the Lower Galilee. At the end of the first truce, the fighting resumed in the Jenin area on 9.7.1948, and its division maintained the village of pku’a and for several hours repulsed enemy forces.There was a danger of encirclement and the ammunition was about to fall. He left a wife and a daughter, and after two years his grave was found by the Red Cross and he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Afula.

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