Rosen, Yirmiyahu (Mundek)

Yirmiyahu (Mundek) Rosen was born on the 10th of Tishrai, October 18, 1926 in the town of Rimanov, Galicia, Poland, to a well-to-do Hasidic family, although his father was a secular Zionist. At the end of June 1940, the entire family was deported to Siberia, where Yirmiyahu helped his parents by cutting wood in the forest. Following the Stalin-Sikorski Agreement, the family was released and left Siberia for Samarkand. At 16 years old, he managed to obtain an exit permit to Tehran in the convoy of the “Tehran Children” in order to immigrate to Palestine. He arrived in Eretz Yisrael with in March 1943. Yirmiyahu trained in the Haganah and completed a scouts course. He served as a scout and as a machine gunner, as well as in guard posts, fortifications and training. In the first attack on the Gush, on January 14, 1948, he acted as a machine gunner in the southern positions, causing casualties to the enemy. On the last day before the fall of the Gush, he lay with his friends among the rocks all day in the heat, starving and thirsty, unable to leave the shelter because of the enemy’s armored fire that remained stuck between the paths. The next day Yirmiyahu fell with the others in Etzion, on the 4th of Iyar, 13.5.1948. On the 25th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949), he was brought with the rest of the victims of the Gush to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Har Herzl in Jerusalem.