Schwartz, Menachem

Son of Hanna and Benjamin, was born in 1924 in the town of Chucha, Transylvania, Romania, and graduated from the elementary school. He was active in the Betar movement and was active in it, and at a young age he acquired the Hebrew language and dreamed of immigrating to Eretz Israel, and was transferred to a concentration camp during the Second World War. He was a metalworker in Austria and went to Belgium to prepare for aliyah, and his uncle, who was in Uruguay, invited him to come to him, but he refused.Menachem boarded the illegal immigrant ship Theodor Herzl in 1947. He worked as a teacher and teacher in Cyprus He was drafted into a combat company in Khatib in January 1948, when the draft order still did not apply to him The operation was carried out on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took control of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed, and meanwhile the Egyptians recovered and attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. 1948. He was buried in Faluja and was later transferred to the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.