Polka, Dr. Moshe Aviezer

Born in 1896 in Breslau, Germany, he became a well-known lawyer and was also known for his activities in Jewish public life, as a member of the community administration in Breslau and the Mizrachi movement, and in 1938 he immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. Moshe Aviezer participated in the competition announced by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his work “Lives in Germany Before and After Hitler’s Rise” won first prize, and during the Second World War he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the Desert Corps and served in Egypt and the Western Desert. In 18 Iyar (15.5.1941) he was killed in a bombing in the Western Desert and was laid to rest at the British military cemetery in El Al Maine, Egypt. He left a wife and three children, and his name was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Yearbook of the Journalists”, 1946.