Oshpitz, Yaakov (Yena)

Son of Tzvia and Yitzhak, was born on October 10, 1930 in the city of Debrecen, Hungary. He attended a high school, and when the Nazis took over the country he was taken from his parents’ house together with his two brothers and brought to a concentration camp. He was in the camps in Vienna, Graz, Mauthausen, and finally transferred to Auschwitz near the time of liberation, and a week later the Russians liberated him from the death camp. He has since gone on a path of redemption. Jacob arrived in Italy and was placed in an institution for children and youth organized by soldiers of the Jewish Brigade. Where he spent a year and a half until his turn to immigrate. He boarded the ship “Wedwood” in June 1946. In Israel, he attended a school in a religious youth village and specialized in the field of blacksmithing. Before the end of his studies, the War of Independence broke out and he enlisted. Yaakov served in the Golani Brigade and participated in battles in the Gesher police station and in the defense of Ein Gev. On September 12, 1948, he fell in a search operation between the village of Hittin, near Hebron, near Hirbat Bir Sabina, and was sent to bring ammunition to the machine gun. After the conquest of the Galilee, his corpse was found in the soil of the village of Eilabun, and was buried in Tiberias on the 16th of Sivan 5706 (June 1, 1950) he was taken to eternal rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.