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Pekola, Victor-Arieh

Pekola, Victor-Arieh


Son of-Chaya and Moshe was born on May 5, 1927, in the city of Brava-Mazowiecka, Poland, where he moved to Paris with his family, and in Paris he completed his elementary and high school studies in 1941. In 1941, And moved to the south of France, leaving alone in the city, where he succeeded in extracting part of the family’s property from his parents’ home and then joining her in her new home, and a year later he decided to leave France to join the Allied forces fighting the Germans, But because of his youth he was not accepted into the army and he moved to a Protestant priest who kept a small group of N. in his house After the war, he returned to France and met his sister, who remained the sole survivor of the entire family, the tragedy of the family and the destruction of European Jewry, which increased his Jewish and Zionist consciousness. After the UN General Assembly decided on November 29, 1947, to partition the land and establish a Jewish state, he decided not to postpone his immigration to Eretz Israel in order to join the Jewish fighting forces. Etzel, and from there he was drafted into the new army and underwent training. When the ship Altalena reached the shores of the country, Victor was with the Etzel members who, on the 22nd of June 1948, from the training base in Beer Yaakov to Tel Aviv, helped the passengers of the ship and was killed in an exchange of fire south of the Beit Dagon junction. For a rest at the military cemetery in Nahalat Yitzhak, a nurse put it.

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