Pizem, Yaakov (Moses)

Son of David and Sarah. He was born on December 25, 1934 in the city of Suceava (Bukovina) in Romania. In 1941, Yaakov, then about six, was exiled by the Nazis together with his father and mother to Transnistria, Ukraine. Where they suffered hunger and thirst, cold and disease, and during their three years there, until 1943, Jacob was witness to the horrific scenes of torture of all those imprisoned in the concentration camp. After his father died due to severe diseases and famine, the mother returned with her son to the city where he was born (she is Suceava) and they again suffered troubles and hardships. The mother saved bread from her mouth and was forced to do all kinds of housework to feed her only son who saved her from death. Thus she raised Jacob and brought him to study pharmacy and dental technology until he finished these two subjects. But it was precisely when the son knew that Welfare decided to immigrate to Israel, that he was an enthusiastic Zionist, as his mother says. In 1963, Yaakov and his parents immigrated to Israel. Shortly after their immigration, Yaakov was called up for reserve duty and since then he has been out of service every year. Yaakov worked hard at all kinds of jobs in the government hospital in Safed, serving food to the sick, cleaning, etc. Some time after he immigrated to Israel, he purchased a dental clinic (with a loan from the Jewish Agency), but a year before the clinic opened, Jacob fell on the Syrian border. Jacob fell on the 24th of Iyar 5727 (3.6.1967) and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Safed. Jacob left behind him, a mother and wife – Miriam, to whom he was married for three years. His mother would have spoken to her son Jacob about not approaching the front, but he would have answered her: “Mother, every step I make toward the border I protect you.