Vogel, Emanuel (Monia)

Emanuel, son of Golda and Nachum Yitzhak, was born in 1917 in the city of Vizhnica-Bukovina, Romania, where he experienced the Holocaust when he was sent to concentration camps in Transnistria, where his family was lost. “Trian” in Romania Monia arrived in Palestine as part of Youth Aliyah in late 1944. He was sent with his friends to Aliyah to the “Workers’ Farm” in Petah Tikva. The school principal of those days describes him as “an old child, without faith in people and the environment.” In a short time, she became very well acquainted with the children, learned the language, often wrote to the school newsletter in a spirit of optimism. In these works, he calls his new country “mother” and he tells how difficult it was for him to adapt to the new and orderly life in the homeland. However, he says, he was Simcha with this period, because “he is no longer exploited by others, and he studies and works and lives in his own right in the society of his choice.” During the War of Independence, before the establishment of the State of Israel, the “Yogevim” group went to train the Palmach in Kibbutz Gezer, and when the training was completed, the men joined the Fifth Battalion of the Harel Brigade, May 12, 1948, he fell with several of his comrades in the battles of Operation Maccabi when the Arabs occupied the 8th outpost north of Sha’ar Hagai. He was laid to rest in a mass grave at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.