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Simon, Avraham-Shlomo

Simon, Avraham-Shlomo


Avraham, the son of Esther and Moshe, was born in Romania in the city of Bystrica in northern Transylvania in 1929. His parents were ultra-Orthodox, and he studied in a “cheder” and elementary elementary school of the Jewish community. In the summer of 1941, the stateless people were deported to the city of the Kamenets-Podolski Fortress in southwest Ukraine, where they were murdered by Hungarian soldiers, and from 1942 to 1944 the men were drafted for forced labor in the Hungarian army. In March 1944, after the Germans occupied Hungary, the Jews were concentrated in an open and fenced field The remaining 7,000 Jews were murdered in the area, and the rest were deported to the Auschwitz death camp in June 1946. Abraham and his family were deported to Auschwitz, where his parents perished, and he was sent to work camps in Germany. After the liberation he moved to Italy, joined Agudath Israel youth and in 1946 he immigrated to Israel on the “Four Freedoms.” The immigrants were arrested by the British and deported to Cyprus, and after six months in detention, Avraham arrived in Israel on 15 February 1947. Avraham arrived in Jerusalem. He was educated in the “Youth Aliyah” institution of Agudat Israel in the city, studied carpentry, and spent all his leisure time studying Torah. His friends remember his good temperament, his natural cheerfulness, his fondness for literature, and especially for poetry, and his generosity in helping others-in his meager capacity. After the United Nations General Assembly decided on November 29, 1947, to divide the country into two states, Avraham began to train with weapons before the expected war of independence, and since then he took part in the defense of the Yemin Moshe neighborhood. Avraham joined the fighting forces of the Irgun (National Military Organization) in Jerusalem. His underground name was son of-Shimon Avraham. He took a course and was a paramedic. After the establishment of the state, Etzel maintained its separate framework in Jerusalem, because the city was not included within the boundaries of the Jewish state in the UN partition plan. In July 1948, Avraham was a member of the Irgun, which fought in Malha, and the village of Malha in the south of Jerusalem (now the Minchat / Malcha neighborhood) was a large Arab village, whose inhabitants had been harassed by the Arab armies in the western part of the city. In the south of the city, they were afraid that they would exploit the village to create a hostile front against the western neighborhoods, which would endanger the city center, so that in July 1948, the large Israeli offensive in the entire area of ​​Jerusalem, Haganah “and Irgun fighters from Jerusalem. On July 15, 1948, Israeli forces conquered the village of Malha, but when the Irgun fighters made their way to capture a fortified fortress, the Jordanian army began a counterattack and shelled them with fire. As a result of the attack and the large number of casualties, Irgun fighters retreated from the outpost, carrying their wounded to a nearby cave, following which the Jordanian soldiers entered the cave, slaughtered the wounded and their transporters. Of the twenty Irgun fighters who fell in this battle. Despite the severe losses, the village and its surroundings were reoccupied, and the Israeli control over Jerusalem was extended to the southwest of the city. Avraham was nineteen years old when he fell. His body was found four days later and he was buried in Sheik Adar Aleph. On the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) he was transferred to the deceasedIn the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.

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