Schwartz, Abraham

Son of Rachel and Joseph, was born on February 15, 1930 in the city of Iasi, Romania. All the horrors of the Second World War were over him and he was saved from annihilation. At the end of the war he arrived in Israel as an illegal immigrant through Cyprus on December 21, 1947, joined the Yagur kibbutz and became very prominent in the new society as a man of good nature and quiet and gentle. His health prevented him from enlisting among the former, and he was drafted only on May 10, 1948, and served in the Golani Brigade. Shortly after his enlistment, his parents arrived in Israel and were housed in one of the abandoned villages. Abraham found him a friend in Israel, was about to marry her and embroidered dreams of a peaceful life in the liberated homeland. He participated in the operation “Horev” to remove the Egyptian army from Israel and fell in battle on the Rafah border outposts on 4 January 1949. He was buried in the borders On the 16th of Av 5709 (August 11, 1949) he was transferred to eternal rest In the military cemetery in Haifa