Sendik, Abraham

Son of Hanna and Zvi-Yehuda, was born in 1927 in Lodz, Poland. He completed elementary school and shortly afterwards he and all the Jews of the city were subjected to the horrors of the ghetto, starvation and hard labor, as a result of the German occupation. In 1944 he was transferred to the Auschwitz camp, from there to Chechowicz, and then to Buchenwald. In the spring of 1945, he was liberated by the American army from the Buchenwald camp. In the same year, he immigrated to Israel on the “Matroua”, the first ship to Palestine after the Second World War. In Israel he worked as a night-time laborer and studied Hebrew and other studies. In the winter of 1948, when the War of Independence began, he took part in battles in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. In the Irgun attack on Jaffa, he was wounded by shrapnel near his Lev, and after he was healed at the Hadassah Hospital, he returned to his unit, and upon the dissolution of the Irgun, he joined the IDF and served in the Givati ​​Brigade. 1948) was killed in reconnaissance near Kfar Uriya, and a memorial monument was erected in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, which is a mikal – a space whose burial place is unknown.