Schwartz, Ephraim

Son of Alexander and Esther (Rosa). He was born on the 17th of Tammuz 5704 (17.7.1944) in a concentration camp near Vienna, the capital of Austria (after his mother, who was pregnant, was deported there from the provinces together with all Hungarian Jews in the spring of 1944). In the miracles his mother gave birth to him and even managed to hide him from the eyes of the murderers until the liberation in April 1945. After the liberation, the mother returned with her baby to the country from which she was deported and where she met with the whole family; The father was in prison all the time. Then they decided to join the stream of Jewish refugees who had advanced in every way to immigrate to Israel. The boy was shaken by his father and by his mother until they reached a transit camp in Germany and this camp became a permanent camp in which the child grew up until the age of four. Only then, in 1948, did the parents immigrate to Israel – and he was with them. Now, after the many wanderings and wandering, the absorption lines of the family and of the child began. They were sent to Jaffa and housed in a deserted and ruined house. But soon they got along and Ephraim became almost a “sabra.” He attended kindergarten and elementary school in Jaffa; In seventh grade he joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, called her and began to express his desire to be educated in the kibbutz. In eighth grade he was already in Kibbutz Haogen; Where he completed elementary grades and moved to the Ramot Hefer educational institution until he finished 12th grade there, was active in the orchestra and choir and even participated in the dramatic band, was a member of the Gadna Air Brigade and when he was drafted into the IDF in August 1963 He served in the air force, although he soon realized that he had not chosen the right corps and five months had passed to an armored reconnaissance unit, and on Sunday, 7 March 1964, Ephraim fell in the line of duty and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery Military base in Kiryat Shaul. Kibbutz Haogen took out a pamphlet in his memory