Shmuel, Dov (Benno, Berko)

Son of Gitel and Shmuel, was born on November 30, 1929, in the city of Barlad, Romania. After completing elementary school, he began working as a tailor. He managed to get through all the horrors of the Holocaust and then decided to immigrate to Israel. Until 1947 he waited for the possibility of “legal” immigration, and when he did not come, he embarked on the path of escape and illegal immigration. He passed through Hungary, Austria, Germany and France, and was often imprisoned for stealing the border. He did this long and arduous journey with his brothers, and both arrived in Israel at the height of the War of Independence on July 11, 1948. At Beit Lid, their first stop in the country separated from each other, and each was joined to another unit in the Israel Defense Forces. He spent the entire period of his service in the Givati ​​Brigade and fought in the south. Dov participated in the “Yoav” operation to break the road to the Negev and fell in combat on the Kochba outposts on October 18, 1948 when he was hit by a shell in the head and 20 minutes later died of his wounds. He was laid to rest at the Warburg military cemetery. Before his death, he replied to his commander, who asked volunteers for a tour, that he was ready to leave …