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Parnes, Yosef-Meir

Parnes, Yosef-Meir


Son of Shmuel – David and Eve. He was born on May 4, 1920, in the city of Bedzin, Poland. He grew up in a Jewish-traditional and Zionist atmosphere and studied at the Mizrachi school. In 1943 he was exiled to Germany and imprisoned in the camp. In April 1945 he was liberated by the Allies on the German-Swiss border. He remained in Bergen-Belsen until his turn to immigrate. There was a carpenter. In 1948, he immigrated to Israel and immediately volunteered for the IDF and served in the Engineering Corps, during which he took a combat training course and served as a jeep driver two weeks before his release, on Wednesday, June 1, 1949, In the course of fulfilling his duties, and was put to rest in the military section of the cemetery in Rehovot.

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