Stern, Moshe-Yechiel

Son of Yenta and Yitzhak, born in 1919 in the city of Gostynin, Poland, moved with his parents to Lodz where he grew up and was educated purely in the concept of Torah with Derech Eretz. During World War II, he was interned in concentration camps and was recently interned in the Buchenwald camp. After the liberation he was one of the organizers of a kibbutz survivors and one of the founders of Kibbutz Buchenwald in Eretz Israel, which he arrived in 1945. He settled in Kfar Ata. During the War of Independence he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces and during his service he contracted meningitis and died in a government hospital on 9/11/1948 and was brought to rest in the cemetery in the village of Ata.