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Stramer, Yitzhak

Stramer, Yitzhak


Son of Zvi and Bella. He was born on August 20, 1941, in Siberia, Russia. Yitzhak grew up in harsh conditions during World War II but at the end of the war the family moved to Poland. After settling there, they decided to start their immigration to Palestine, but he was arrested in Germany and spent some time in the Bad Reichenwald camp in the Bavarian mountains. He was eight when the family finally arrived in Israel in 1949 and settled in the neighborhood of Husa (now son of Dor) near Haifa. Yitzhak soon became absorbed in the social life and began to attend the local elementary school. After completing his studies there, he moved to the Technion vocational school in Haifa, where he studied electronics and was a great student, and during his last years of studies, the Navy trained him and helped him continue on his way to the army. He served in the Israel Defense Forces in September 1960 and served for the first four months in the Gadna Navy, and after completing his compulsory army service he remained in the regular army and since then began to rise in ranks after various courses and courses, And advanced electronics. Most of the time he served in the “Eilat” destroyer. Two weeks before he fell, he received his last rank – sergeant on October 21, 1967, when he was killed by Egyptian missiles in front of a Romanian beach in northern Sinai. Yitzhak was supposed to study in a preparatory course for practical engineers at the Hebrew Technion in Haifa, but he did not have time to begin before he fell while serving in the Eilat branch. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. His memory was placed in a booklet on behalf of the local council of Kiryat Motzkin in memory of the fallen boys.

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