Dov, son of Beila and Leib Eliezer, was born in the city of Mili, near the city of Bukovina (now Ukraine), in a pioneering atmosphere among the members of the hachshara who worked at his parents’ home. The Bukovina region in the northern Carpathians was taken from Romania and annexed to the Soviet Union in 1940. In June 1941, many of the Jews of Milly were murdered by Ukrainian gangs, and a month later the Romanians reoccupied the area and 15,000 Jews were murdered in the settlements along the Dniester, West of Romania, and in September they were deported to Transnistria, Transnistria, in western Ukraine Between the rivers Bog and Dniester, Hitler handed over to Rumania in exchange for her participation in the war, and 300,000 Jews were killed in the region, tens of thousands of whom were murdered immediately after the Germans came in. The Romanians rounded up Jews who had been deported, Until the end of the war, in which about half of the 600,000 Romanian Jews perished, and Dov, his parents, and his sister died on the way to the camp, and his mother and sister died in the camp. . Dov, who remained alone in his family, swore to take revenge on the Germans. As the Russians approached, he joined the partisans fighting the Nazis and killed 37 Germans himself. With the Soviet army, Dov moved to Romania, and with the intervention of one of his uncles from Bucharest he was accepted into a youth convoy that immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1944. After his arrival in Israel, Dov worked in a bakery in Haifa. When his uncle started a large farm in Ra’anana he moved to it, ran the chicken coop with 3,000 birds and specialized in work. From the day he arrived he joined the Hagana and participated in its activities. In the winter of 1948, when the battles of the War of Independence broke out following the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of Palestine, Dov was one of the first to report for service. He was first assigned to a combat unit in the 32nd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade, the 3rd Brigade of the Haganah, and took part in battles in the southern Sharon region, in the battles of Latrun, and in the battles in Lod and Ramle after the first truce. Dov refused, saying, “I will not be able to rest until I recover the revenge of my parents and my people.” In July 1948, Dov participated in a battle in the village of Kula, an Arab village conquered by the Jordanians, Today, in the vicinity of Givat Shaul and Mazor, on July 15, 1948, Dov’s company replaced another company from the brigade in the outposts east of the line E. The next morning, I Tamuz Independence (16/07/1948) Even before the unit dig in properly, the Legion forces attacked the outpost when assisted by artillery and armored vehicles, swept the front outpost department positions and forced the company to withdraw. Dov fell in this battle. About thirty other fighters were killed, from the Alexandroni and Eighth divisions. Dov was twenty-two years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in a mass grave in Netanya’s military cemetery. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
