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Suitsky, Yechiel

Suitsky, Yechiel


Son of Herzl and Elka. He was born on March 23, 1929, in the city of Gitel, near Slonim, Russia, where he studied in an elementary school, and a few years after his father’s death, World War II broke out and the Germans, Then thirteen years old. After the Germans completely liquidated the ghetto, he joined the partisans. Together with them, he would transfer overnight Jews from one town to the camp out of devotion and courage. After various incarnations of loneliness, suffering and poverty he came to Krakow where he joined the hachshara to come to Israel. Finally, in 1946, he arrived in Israel together with the immigrants of the ship “Sefcia”. In the refugee children’s society, where you went all the way, he went to Aousa and there he adapted the Hebrew language. He soon became fond of all the members of the group. Suffered greatly from a lack of a homey atmosphere and yet refused to accept the invitation of his uncle in Argentina to come to him and be close to his desk; His answer was that he was fed up with the life of exile and wandering and his place in the State of Israel. After a year he moved to Tel Aviv and found his home in his cousin’s family. When he arrived in town, he began attending an evening high school and began working in the mail, where he learned to be a telephone technician. When he reached the army service, he was attached to the Signal Corps, and all the while he was eager to study and study, but shortly before his release he was seriously injured while carrying out his duties, and three days later, on the 11th of Tishrei 5710 (October 11, 1949) Was brought to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.

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