Steinberg, Moshe (Mickey)

The only son of Bella and David. He was born on February 11, 1962 in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Moshe began to study in an elementary school, and according to him he learned only in subjects that interested him and in other subjects he was not interested at all. With the annexation of Austria to Germany, his parents succeeded in escaping to Belgium, and Moshe joined the “A” youth movement that immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1938 and received her training at Kibbutz Ein Shemer. He spent two years in Ein Shemer, and in those two years he turned him from a weak and weak little boy, yet mischievous and obstinate to a sturdy, serious and mature man, researching and demanding the kibbutz and socialism. His time was precious to him and every moment was used to read, to expand his knowledge and to progress in playing the piano. “Moshe Beethoven,” his friends called him because of his love for music for pennies he used to buy records and listen to his friends. Moshe helped his friends with all his might and was forgiving of the weaknesses of his large and small friends. At night we do not count people sitting by the fire singing folk songs. He found the release of his longing and anxieties when he sat in the reading room and a book in his hand. “I can not live my social life with everyone … I will have to help my parents, there is a moral commitment and it is stronger than anything, they have no one in the world, I am their only son.” Indeed, weeks before he died, McKay seriously considered joining the ranks of the British army in order to be part of the struggle for the liberation of Europe and its Jews, and among them his parents who had been with them were suddenly cut off. In 1940 he joined the “Netzer” youth group for Kibbutz Sha’ar Hagolan. Here, too, he contributed his part to kibbutz life and work and faithfully fulfilled every task he was assigned. When asked about his plans for the future, he replied: “I want to live a quiet life, a cultural life, to listen to music, to play music, to read a good book after work, to find a simple, dedicated society that will love me and be able to love it.” Moshe joined the ranks of the Palmach and was stationed in Company A. He was based in Kibbutz Afikim, where he spent a long period of training and operations on 24.5.1943, died of an illness and was brought to eternal rest in the kibbutz cemetery Ein-Shemer, left a mother (his father died in Belgium during the war), and his mother, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, was buried next to him. Palmach. “