Shtienkritzer, Baruch (Haifa)

Born in 1920 in Ostrog, Poland, he studied in a high school. With the outbreak of World War II he fled to the Soviet Union and served in the Red Army. When the war ended, he wandered in Poland and Austria and arrived in Salzburg with the Gordonia group. Where he taught Hebrew not in order to receive a prize. From Salzburg he crossed the border to Italy and a few months later, in 1946, he boarded the ship “Wedwood”. When he arrived, he spent a short time in the Neve Yam group and then moved to Netanya and worked there as a construction worker. In May 1948 he joined the army and served in the Givati ​​Brigade. On the night of June 2-3, 1948, during the “Philistine” operation, the Givati ​​forces attacked the Egyptian alignment near the Ashdod Bridge (the “Ad Halom” bridge today). The assault was halted by heavy enemy fire and the forces were forced to retreat. The attack failed, but forced the Egyptians to prepare for the ground and halted their advance northwards. In this battle he fell, on the day of the fifth of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948). On the 7th of Cheshvan 5710 (7.11.1949) he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.