Schwartz, Abraham (“Yentzi”)

Son of Shmuel and Miriam. He was born on 29.4.1929 in the city of Brasov, Romania. Size in the environment of assimilation and hence gave him only a few traditional Jewish values. He went to school there. A year after the outbreak of World War II, the family was deported to Hungary, where, due to the lack of citizenship, they were arrested by the authorities and placed in a detention camp. In 1943, Avraham was arranged by the Jewish community in the orphanage in Budapest, where he began studying electricity. In 1944, after the Nazi occupation of Hungary, he was taken to one of the ghetto houses in the area until he escaped and forged Christian certificates passed through the period of terror until the liberation of the city by the Russian armies without any mishap. His non-Jewish face also helped him to escape and hide from the Nazis. After their rule, he found his way to the Youth Aliyah movement, and with the help of the Zionist movement Dror Habonim, he left Hungary in 1946 with the aim of arriving in Israel, but only the following year he arrived via DP camps in Germany and Cyprus. He belonged to a nucleus in Tel Yosef and studied plumbing. In June 1948, he and his comrades were appended to the Palmach battalions, and on September 2, 1950 he fell in battle with infiltrators near Eilat and was brought to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.