Neifeld, Meir (Deja)

Son of Bluma and Natan was born on January 18, 1925 in the city of Sheklod, Transylvania, and completed elementary school and three high school classes. When he was young, he joined the Hanoar Hazioni Movement in the city of Tirgomoresh and later was a member of the Dror movement. During the Second World War he was sent by the Hungarian authorities to forced labor and after Hungary was occupied by the Germans, he was sent to the Buchenwald extermination camp. After the liberation, he went to Hungary to search for his family and there he learned of their fate. Meir decided to immigrate to Israel, moved to several countries, arrived in Italy and from there boarded the ship “Haganah” on July 19, 1946 when the British interned by the British Atlit camp tried to escape from the camp but was caught and put in jail. When he left the camp, the city settled in gardens, adapted quickly to the life of the country and settled in it. He found a living in construction. After the outbreak of the War of Independence, he enlisted in the “Carmeli” Brigade, fought in the Western Galilee, and spent a certain time in Negba, during the difficult days of the siege of the Galilee communities on March 27, 1948. In the afternoon hours, a caravan of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya to deliver supplies, fortifications, and reinforcements to Yiham, and the caravan encountered an Arab ambush, and the first armored vehicle managed to break through and reach Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. During the evening hours and under the cover of darkness, some of them managed to escape, but half of them fell in battle and lit up among them, and were brought to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya.