Teferman-Hacohen, Hanan

Son of Malka and Ya’akov Hakohen was born on April 12, 1931 in the village of Szcosz, near Breschen, in Serbia, and studied in a “cheder” and an elementary school. When Romania joined the war with Germany and the Romanians entered Bessarabia, all the local Jews were gathered to the police house and the guard invited the Romanian residents to come and kill the Jews as they pleased. In front of Hanan his father and the other men were murdered. A few days later he knew his father’s clothes on the body of one of the murderers, and the feeling of revenge stirred the boy’s Lev. He was deported with the remains of the Jews in Transnistria to the forced labor camps. At the end of the war, he immigrated to Israel with the first children of Transnistria on 2.5.1944 and was educated in the “Aliyah” institution of the religious youth aliyah in Petah Tikva. In the winter of 1948, with the outbreak of the War of Independence, he volunteered despite his youth, with his friends in the religious division of the Alexandroni Brigade, completed a paramedics course and served in this position. Was of a solid, serious, responsible and dedicated character, according to his commanders and friends. Stood in every difficult task he was assigned. On Wednesday, May 13, 1948, in a battle near Arab Kfar Saba, he helped his injured comrades, and when the company began to retreat, Hanan saw another wounded friend on the hill and returned to the area, which was hit by enemy fire. He continued to take care of the wounded man, and he managed to bandage his friend’s wounds and his own wounds, while the enemy’s bullet hit him and killed him (his friend who was seriously wounded, survived, and survived).