Strauss, Yoseph-Zvi (Yossi)

Son of Chaya-Rachel and Meir, was born on December 14, 1930 in the city of Mako, Hungary and received a clear religious education. During World War II he survived the horrors of the war and in 1945 returned home. Yoseph-Zvi joined a group of Agudat Yisrael youth and boarded the Latrun. The ship was captured by the British and Yoseph-Zvi was sent to Cyprus, where he continued to study Torah and tried to study art. He emigrated to Israel in 1947,and began studying at the Kol Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem and was fond of his friends. Meanwhile, his brothers and sisters also arrived in Israel. In mid-November 1947, Yoseph-Zvi wrote to his sister in Tel Aviv to inquire about the conditions for his admission to the Torah and Malacha yeshiva in Kfar Avraham, Petah Tikva. Two weeks later, with the outbreak of the War of Independence Yoseph-Zvi turned aside his concerns for his future and went straight to the army when he was only seventeen years old. Zvi served in the “Beit Horon” battalion of the “Etzioni” Brigade and participated in all the battles in the Jerusalem area, and gave a cheerful and confident spirit to his friends and was fond of them. His parents were still abroad, and only in January 1949 did they arrive in Israel. Yosef-Zvi fell in battle in the Armon Hanatziv area on the 12th of Av, August 17, 1948, and was buried in Sheikh Bader. On Athe 17th of Elul, August 30, 1950, he was transferred to eternal rest at the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.