Steinmetz, Moshe

Son of Etta and Shmarya was born on November 11, 1928 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, and attended elementary school. In the days of Nazi terror, he was taken to the Buchenwald camp in Germany, and upon his liberation he returned to Hungary, where he studied the art of leaning and aspired to immigrate to Palestine. At the end of 1945 he went to Italy for training, and in 1946 it was his turn to immigrate. The captured immigrants were forcibly transferred to the ship, which was about to be transferred to Cyprus, and he jumped into the sea and was saved. For twelve consecutive hours he swam in the sea and reached the shore safely. In Israel he worked as a clerk. At the end of 1947, with the outbreak of the War of Independence after the United Nations General Assembly resolution on the partition of the country, he enlisted and served in the Givati ​​Brigade, participated in many battles and was always at the front, while Moshe was killed when he was hit by a stray bullet, On November 20, 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in the village of Warburg.