Tzur (Bernstein), Yosef

Son of Fania and Mordechai. He was born in 1918 in Bytne, Poland. At the age of three months, his mother went with him and his sister to the United States, where they stayed for five years and then returned to Poland. After graduating from the elementary school, he was accepted as a student at the “Tarbut” Hebrew Gymnasium in Pinsk, where he joined the Hanoar Hazioni youth movement at the age of fourteen. He maintained contact with his friends in his group in the youth movement even after he went to study in the city of Baranowicze, where he was also active in the local branch of his movement. In 1937 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he studied at the Hebrew University, but two years later, he stopped his studies and enlisted in the Nutras, underwent the necessary training and was promoted to sergeant. For three and a half years he was in charge of a company of guards that was in charge of guarding the trains and for a while sat with his unit in Qalqiliya and Tulkarm. His fluent English and his ability to easily associate with others helped him to bring down barriers between the Hebrew guards and the British officers and officers. Joseph participated in the operation of the deportation of enemy subjects from Eretz Israel and headed the Hebrew guards who accompanied them on a ship to Australia. After his return, he enlisted in the British Army. Shortly after his enlistment, he was accepted to an officers’ school and after graduation he received the rank of officer. On the 8th of Adar (March 3, 1944) he died in an accident while performing his duties and was buried in the British Military Cemetery in Haifa. He left a wife and was mentioned in a memorial entitled “Lamentation to Joseph” In the book “To Fire and Protection”.