Ukrainian, Pesach

Son of Pesia and Yitzhak, was born in 1920 in Janow near Pinsk, Poland, to a family that was cared for by the boys. His father, who was a devout man, did not want to send his son to school or teach him a profession, so he was educated at his parents’ home. At the age of 16, when Polish rioters attacked the synagogue, he organized a group of youths who repelled the rioters by killing one of their leaders. Pesach, who found a hiding place in the attic and in the nearby forest, managed to escape from Poland and arrived in France. Where he received a permit for a yeshiva and prepared to work. When World War II broke out he volunteered immediately to the French army and was a courageous and avenging soldier. At the end of the war he was invited by wealthy relatives to come to the United States, but he chose the way of immigration to Eretz Israel. This was in the spring of 1946. The ship was caught and while the immigrants were forcibly sent to Cyprus, he managed to escape. In Israel he joined Kibbutz Gal-On and went with his friends on the ground. In the kibbutz he served as a tractor operator. He was known as a courageous, honest and hard-working man, but he did not merge with the society, which received a different education. In this kibbutz he found his life partner, born in Israel. Pesach left the kibbutz and married his wife during the Passover holiday in 1948. They settled in Jerusalem, where he was immediately recruited and sent to the Dead Sea Works, and after the destruction of the factory he was sent among his last men to Sodom and took part in its protection as a translator. 1948), the last day before the second truce, was flown to Tel Aviv for a vacation, when the plane approached the landing at Sde Dov near Tel Aviv and was attacked by a gang of Arabs in the area, killing five of them He was brought to eternal rest on the 20th of Tammuz 5708 (July 20, 1948) at the military cemetery in Nachalat Yitzhak. He left a wife – Deborah.