Raphael, Moshe (Morris)

Moshe, son of Joseph, was born in 1927 in Greece, grew up in his hometown and attended a public school, which was not occupied by the Germans in May 1941, about a year and a half after the beginning of World War II. In February 1943, the Nuremberg Laws were implemented and the Jews were isolated in three main ghettos in Salonika and its environs. The extermination of the Jews of Greece took place in a number of stages: in March 1943, the deportation from Thrace and Makk Following the surrender of Italy and the German takeover in the summer of 1944, the Jews were deported from the rest of Greece, where some 54,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz and exterminated by gas or sent to forced labor and died from starvation, disease and cruelty to the guards. But only a few Jews managed to survive, and by the end of the war, more than 80 percent of the Jews of Greece, some 67,000, perished in the Holocaust. Only he survived the entire family after fleeing to the forests and joining the partisans who fought the Nazis as best they could. At the end of the war he lived another year in Greece, until he succeeded in immigrating to Eretz Israel. On June 2, 1946 he boarded the ship “Haviva Reik”. The ship sailed from Cape Kato Suunion in Greece with 343 immigrants aboard, and three days later another 120 immigrants from the Rafi ship were added. On June 7 the ship was discovered by the British who towed it to Haifa, and all its passengers were brought to detention in Atlit. A few weeks later, Moshe was released from prison and settled in Tel Aviv. Soon he began to learn Hebrew and work in a leather factory. In his free time, his acquaintances remember, he loved to listen to music and watch movies. Shortly after his arrival, Moshe joined the Etzel (Irgun Zvai Leumi) and since then participated in the underground activities against the British and the Arabs, including taking part in attacking Arabs in February 1948. With the establishment of the IDF and the dismantling of the Irgun, Moshe was joined by the 52nd Battalion of the Givati ​​Brigade, Since the end of Operation “Yoav” for the breakthrough to the Negev (October 1948), an Egyptian brigade has been left in the “Kiss Falluja” (Kiryat Gat area, west and east) Carried out a series of actions to tighten the encirclement of the Egyptian force, including an attempt to conquer outposts that controlled the “Egyptian Burma Road” – a route that the Egyptians built from Falluja west of Iraq, Day squads Fort Yoav Junction) and who served in the forces trapped after Israel controlled the main road. An attack on one of these outposts, Position 7 (Police charged), Moses fell on Sunday, Cheshvan Ts”t (11/03/1948). Moshe was twenty-one years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in the village of Warburg. Space is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration and extermination camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army