Treister, Nehemiah (Nunio)

Son of Hanna-Ita and Yehoshua, born in 1913 in Czortkow, Poland, survived the horrors of the Second World War and ended up on his way to Eretz Israel, where the ship was captured by the British and its passengers and Nehemiah were sent with them To the refugee camps in Cyprus, where he was imprisoned for two years, and in 1948 immigrated to Eretz Israel and lived in Tel Aviv with his wife Shoshana. During the War of Independence, he joined the IDF and served in the “Kiryati” brigade, during which the forces took control of the Modi’in area, and when the second truce came into force, “He said. On September 23, 1948, the outpost was attacked by local Arabs and by the Legion, surprisingly, and in violation of the truce. The defenders of the outpost were surprised and forced to retreat in light of the enemy’s superiority, and many were injured in the severe retreat. The next day, our forces attacked and conquered the outpost. In this battle he fell on the 24th of Elul 5708 (24.9.1948), and was brought to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery, after which he found a letter in his shirt pocket that ordered his release from the army due to his poor vision. intelligence