Menachem was born in 1930 in Romania, in the city of Cluj in Transylvania, where he studied at the Hebrew Gymnasium in his city, and in September 1940, a year after the beginning of World War II, the Hungarian army entered Cluj. In the summer of 1942, hundreds of Jews were rounded up and sent to the front, and in March 1944 the Germans occupied Hungary and reached Cluj, where 18,000 Jews from the area were imprisoned The harsh living conditions caused an epidemic that killed hundreds of them, and a few months later the Jews were not deported Where Menachem was sent to the death camp and was exterminated there, and he survived the camp and was privileged to arrive on the day of liberation.after the war Menahem returned to his hometown and joined the “Hagshama” group of about 120 young Jews. In 1945, in the framework of the group’s training, he went to Colentina, a small agricultural farm in the suburbs of Bucharest, Romania, when he was the youngest of the group, nicknamed “Kitchi Mandi”. Despite his youth, Menahem was conspicuously aware of his knowledge and especially of his fluency in the Hebrew language, his ideas and talents. In the canteen he composed the anthem of the group, which later accompanied its members until they settled in the land: “Go to Israel, go ahead to Israel, name for fulfillment,” so that we will know our obligations to leave the Diaspora / build a new country in our country. / And then in our blood with courage and heroism / Let’s set up our group, ‘Lagshama’ group. ” In 1946, Menahem and another forty members of his group crossed the border into Yugoslavia and from there moved to Italy. Together with another group of young men, they reached the Unreve camp in a small village in southern Italy. The suffering and anguish that they had on the roads formed the group, which for Menachem became a warm and supportive family. In this camp, the group organized and established committees, published a wall newspaper, initiated performances, organized activities, conducted sports activities and conducted Hebrew lessons – in which Menahem was a central activist. After many hardships, 180 members of the Hagamah managed to board the boat “Albertina” – a small coastal ship purchased by the Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet for the Haganah in Italy. On her way, she is a member of the illegal immigrant ship Bracha Fuld, who left the port of Mola di-Beeri with 626 immigrants on her way, survivors of concentration camps and members of kibbutz youth movements. The voyage was characterized by many mishaps and severe weather conditions. When she reached the sea, Bracha Fuld was caught by the British, dragged to the port of Haifa, and after a difficult struggle her passengers were deported to Cyprus. In the wake of the violent events that developed during the expulsion, Natan Alterman wrote his weekly column “Bracha Fuld”. In Cyprus, Menachem stayed with his friends for about a year. They established a tent compound of their own in the camp, where they learned Hebrew and general studies taught by Hagana emissaries. Menahem persisted in his studies, and did not refrain from ideological debates with his teachers and adults. At the end of 1947 Menachem came to the shores of the country again, and his group was transferred to the Atlit detention camp. A month later they were released and sent to Kibbutz Usha for further training. At the end, they moved to Kiryat Binyamin for another training period called “Atzma’ut”, in preparation for the establishment of a new settlement in Israel. The group was forced to volunteer five members to enlist in the IDF, but Menachem volunteered to replace the chosen member who was on the eve of his marriage, and Menachem joined the 21st Battalion of the Carmeli Brigade.YVA number 2 of the Hagana. In June 1948 Menachem participated in the battle at Ramot Naftali. Ramot Naftali in the Upper Galilee was founded in 1945. As one of the few Jewish settlements in the Naphtali Mountains, it was an important outpost during the War of Independence and served as a base for Israeli fighters in the battle for the Upper Galilee. “The Arab in command of Kaukji was already in the first months of the war, and was joined by the Arabs of the area, and the fighters of the Carmeli Brigade’s 21 Battalion, with reinforcements from the Yiftah Brigade, defended the site on Tuesday, June 10, 1948, , A great Arab effort was made to cut off the eastern Upper Galilee communities in the Hula Valley and in the Naftal Mountains Of the young State of Israel. The effort included attacks from both East and Lebanon. Mishmar Hayarden was conquered by the Syrian army, and at the same time the Arab forces took control of its kings and advanced towards Ramot Naftali. A Syrian force managed to penetrate the area of defense of the settlement and penetrate the bunker where Menachem and his comrades were entrenched. Menachem and another fighter were sent to arrest them, but the Syrians threw grenades at them and killed them. Menahem and twenty other fighters fell in action. The settlement of Ramot Naftali held up, and the Arab force was finally driven out of the area in October 1948, during Operation Hiram. Menahem was eighteen years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. The couple Chana and Shmuel Lieber, Menahem’s friends, met his request on the eve of his enlistment and called their son after him. Three months after the fall of Menahem, members of the “Lehagshama” group established Kibbutz Hagshama, which later became Moshav Shoresh in the Jerusalem corridor. In 1973, as part of the 25 year anniversary celebrations, a memorial ceremony was established for Menahem in the center of the moshav. This hero 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 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.
