Omshayov, Israel (Isidor)
Israel was born in 1911 in Poland, in Lwów, in eastern Galicia (now the capital of a district in Western Ukraine), and was educated in Lvov, where he also married a wife.Luv was a vibrant center of cultural, educational and political activity. And was the third largest in Poland, and on September 1, 1939, the Second World War broke out with the German invasion of Poland and its conquest in the Blitzkrieg operation, immediately followed by anti-Jewish decrees and regulations that resulted in social isolation, economic dispossession and undermining the Jewish life systems. Weeks after the outbreak of the war, Lvov, together with all of Eastern Galicia, was annexed to the Soviet Union The Germans invaded the city in June 1941. On the same day the Jews were murdered, and a Jewish neighborhood was established that later became a ghetto. However, there were extensive and varied manifestations of activity against the Germans and their accomplices, as well as attempts to organize underground activities in Israel, for three years in Nazi concentration camps. During this period his wife and entire family perished. When he had a chance, he fled to Russia, and like other Jews found his way to the ranks of the Red Army, with the aim of taking part in defeating the Germans and avenging, even if only slightly, the murder of his fellow Jews and his people. During the three years he served in the Red Army, he took part in difficult combat operations, among others being among the occupiers of Berlin in 1945. At the end of the war, Israel arrived in Italy, and in July 1948 he immigrated to Israel as part of Gahal (Overseas Recruitment), a group of Jewish immigrants from She’erit Hapleta who fought in various armies during World War II and who volunteered to fight in the War of Independence. They were organized, recruited and trained by the Haganah emissaries, and when they arrived in Israel, they were deployed in the various IDF brigades, and joined the 54th Battalion of the Givati Brigade, the 5th Brigade, and fought in the ranks of Shimshon Foxes, He spent his vacation in a rented apartment in Tel Amel, near Haifa, and on the night of November 2, 1948, Israel left with his company to attack “Regiment 6” on the “Egyptian Burma Road” “- an alternative road paved by the Egyptians south of the Iraqi-Suwaidan police station near Kibbutz Negba, in order to reinforce the thousands of their besieged fighters in the” Faluja pocket ” And the Flugat Junction – Kiryat Gat) was the eighth attempt to capture the police, and his department managed to break into the outpost and infiltrate it, and instead a fierce battle developed, and Israel threw a grenade into the Egyptian position, but a volley of five bullets from a Vickers machine was shot at him On the day of Tishrei 5709 (2 November 1948), Israel died of his wounds, and he was thirty-seven years old. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kfar Warburg. 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.
