Shwartz, Avraham (Bunia)

Son of Hermina and Yehuda-Zvi (Herman) was born on 19.4.1922 in the city of Morawska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. With the spread of Nazi tyranny to Czechoslovakia, he stopped high school in 1938 and immigrated to Israel as part of the Youth Aliya. At first he joined the kibbutz and later worked as a locksmith in the Haifa railway workshops. In 1946 he joined the Haganah. In the winter of 1948, at the outbreak of the War of Independence, he joined the ranks of the Carmeli Brigade and participated in all the battles of the brigade in the Western Galilee, in the Jenin and Upper Galilee regions. (19.7.1948) A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and the space is a macaloon – a space whose burial place is unknown.