Schwartz David
Son of Leah and Shlomo Zalman was born in February 1922 in the city of Slosselotifina. Was the third of the seven children in the family. In his hometown he studied and completed twelve years of study. David was one of the best youngsters who were educated in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. As a man and as a member he was characterized by lofty qualities and had a unique national pride. With the outbreak of World War II, he was taken by the Germans to a labor camp in Ukraine, and by some means he escaped from the labor camp and joined the partisans. When the war ended, David returned to his hometown and soon gathered around him a group of Jewish youth whose goal was to avenge the Gentiles wherever they were. The peak of their activity was the arson of a whole series of Jewish homes that perished in the Holocaust and did not return to their city, in order to prevent the gentiles from scorning Jewish homes. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he immigrated to Israel illegally and was deported to Cyprus. After a period in the Cyprus refugee camps, he joined the Palmach’s Third Battalion in the “Yiftach” Brigade and stayed with his company in Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan, taking part in the second attack on the Nebi Yusha police station, which took place on the night of 19-20 April 1948. And the evacuation of the wounded delayed the explosion, and in the meantime, additional fighters were injured, including the terrorists and the explosive device was not activated. There were many casualties among the 22 casualties in the battle on the 11th of Nissan, 5708 (April 20, 1919) 48) was also David, who was brought to eternal rest in a grave in Nebi Yusha, followed by a brother and two sisters, and wrote in his last letter: “We must fight so that we may have a land,
