Seltzer, Eliezer

Son of Mindel and Yosef-Zvi, was born on December 24, 1928 in the city of Mishkolitz, Hungary. He and his father survived from an extensive family that perished in the Auschwitz death camp. After the war he began studying medicine at a university in Hungary. But the struggle in Israel guided his rest (“I will be miserable all my life and my life will not be alive, if I do not do my duty now,” he wrote to his father from the university). When the fighting broke out he stopped his studies and immigrated to Israel on June 30, 1948 to join the fighters. He served in the “Givati” Brigade, and in the journal of the battalion where he served, he was told about his courage and daring. He embodied in his body what he wrote in a poem he dedicated to Warsaw ghetto fighters: “A sign that a Jew with oppression will not be completed will never be completed” (translated from Hungarian by Avigdor Hameiri). Eliezer fell in battle to tighten the siege of Faluja pocket on 8 November 1948. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in the village of Warburg.