Mosinzon (Markowitz), Pinchas

Pinchas, son of Gizela and Jacob Mosinzon (Markowitz), was born on the 7th of Shevat, February 5, 1930 in Bucharest, Romania. At a young age he knew the horrors of World War II. Pinchus fled to Romania to immigrate to Israel. He arrived in Italy with a group of Hashomer Hatzair members and helped organize the escape and illegal immigration. When the war was already a storm inIsrael, Pinchus served as a guide in the training camp for Gahal (Overseas Recruitment). Pinchus wanted to join the war in Israel but was too young, so he lied about his age saying he was 21. On the second day of Israel’s independence (15.5.1948) he arrived at the port of Tel Aviv, which was bombed that day by the Egyptians. Upon his arrival he enlisted in the Givati ​​Brigade. In a military camp he happened to encounter a soldier who turned out to be the husband of his sister, who was considered lost, and in the evening met his sister and then went to the front. Pinchus fought in the Latrun sector and fell in Dir Ayoub on the 22nd of Iyar, May 31, 1948, during Operation Ben-Nun II, the second attack on the Legion in the Latrun area, in an attempt to break through the road to Jerusalem. On the 25th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) he was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery at Har-Herzl.