Taussig, Hanan

Son of Haim was born on January 24, 1918, in the city of Ulmitz, Czechoslovakia. His father was a lawyer and an economic consultant. After graduating from elementary school, he was accepted to the Gymnasium and showed a tendency toward the Humanities, but was unable to finish his studies there because of the events that took place in those days in this country. Hanan began studying Hebrew, took the exam and immigrated to Israel in 1939 as a student of the Hebrew Technion in Haifa. The economic difficulties he encountered then forced him to stop his studies and go to work. In the spring of 1941 he enlisted in the British army and served for more than five years in a driver’s unit. Hanan participated in the Libyan battles, served in the headquarters, and in 1944 was appended to the Jewish Brigade. After his release he joined the agriculture for generations. We will experience difficult reception at work, but without complaint. He lived for a year and a half in the farm until he was asked to enlist again in the work of drivers, and worked along the water lines in the Negev. Twice he was attacked in the Negev by murderers and was not hurt. At the beginning of the War of Independence, on the 20th of Tevet 5708 (21.12.1947), when his friend Gideon Globter z “l led barrels of fuel from Tel Aviv for generations, their car was attacked with a shower of shots. The bullets hit the barrels that had been set on fire. Hanan managed to escape from the car’s burning cabin, but when he was lying on the road he was murdered. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Dorot.