Veisenstein, Yoseph

Son of Rachel-Roza and Israel, was born on March 1, 1931 in the city of Bromberg, Poland. After the Russian conquest of Eastern Poland, when he began to study, Eastern Poland was conquered by the Soviet Union and the family was deported from Lvov to Siberia and there, upon his release, he was attached to a Polish military school for boys. Where he was taken to an agricultural institution in Magdiel where he joined the Gadna and was trained. Was an intelligent boy, talented and loved by his instructors and friends. In 1946 he moved to Yokne’am and studied at the vocational school for construction in Haifa. He completed the first course and began the second course, with the outbreak of the War of Independence, before he was 17 years old, enlisted in full service and took a sabotage course at Kibbutz Dalia in the Ephraim Mountains. Yosef volunteered for the “Paratroopers” battalion in the Palmach Harel Brigade without revealing it to his parents, and fell near Hulda on March 31, 1948, and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Hulda.