Schwartz, Dan (“Danny”)

Son of Yona and Tirza. He was born on June 18, 1936 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. His parents were killed in World War II. When the Nazis occupied the city, Danny and his sisters were brought to the Jewish ghetto in Budapest. Afterward, he stayed in a Swedish children’s home with his three sisters until the Russians liberated the city in 1945, after hardships and wandering, suffering and starvation, and joined his sisters in “Aliyat Hanoar” and in 1948, at the height of the War of Independence. He studied at an elementary school in the Yifat group in Ramat David, and after completing his studies there he studied until the end of the third class of the high school in the Gvat group. Was a youth counselor and even taught topography in one group that gathered in the evenings in school. In November 1954 he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, and when he was wounded by a Chinese army, he took part in the attack and was wounded in his leg after a Soviet tank destroyed a bazooka. Was responsible for a vineyard and would like to talk to his many friends about land and water, about the grapes he had raised and the shepherds, because his soul was that of a land worker, and from time to time he went to reserve duty and before the Six Day War, The war was called the flag, was a veteran fighter whose name was a hero before him even before the Sinai Campaign On the third day of the war-fighting, he was killed on the 3rd of Iyar 5727 (7.6.1967), fought in his company despite being seriously ill, because of his illness he could easily free himself from service in his unit, but he wanted to stay there. In the air force attack on the outskirts of the city he fell, leaving a wife and two girls, one of whom was not even one year old at the fall of her father, brought to rest in the military cemetery in Afula.