Pesach, the son of Rachel-Roza and Zvi-Hirsch, was born in 1929 in Romania, in the city of Ravovitz in the northern region of Bukovina, where he studied in the “cheder” and until 1940 he continued his studies in a government elementary school. The two world wars belonged to Romania, and the tens of thousands of Jews who lived there had an independent educational network, Jewish creativity flourished, and the Zionist movement took up a large part of the youth’s lives. , And in the years 1938-1940 the Jews were gradually removed from all areas of activity and occupation After the establishment of the national government in September 1940, the situation of the Jews worsened, their property confiscated, and the authorities worked to remove them from economic and social life.In May 1941, the Labor Law was passed for the benefit of the Jews, Which forced the Jews to do forced labor, and when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Soviets evacuated Bukovina, which was reoccupied by the Romanians – the Nazis’ allies. The Jews were blamed for the disasters that afflicted the Romanian people, the restrictions imposed on them, and they even knew acts of abuse, murder, and rape. In June 1941, the Jews of Bessarabia and Bukovina began to be murdered. In the first stage, some 160,000 Jews were murdered with the help of the local population – Romanians and Ukrainians. In mid-September 1941, some 150,000 Jews were deported to Transnistria in western Ukraine. Transnistria was a Jewish mass grave. Tens of thousands were killed in the deportation routes, and about 90,000 perished in the area because of the hunger, cold, diseases and cruelty of the German guards. The entire family of Pesach perished in Transnistria. Only he survived, and throughout the war years rolled between orphanages throughout Ukraine and Romania. At first he was in an orphanage in Bershad, Ukraine, where he was transferred to Balata in Moldavia, where he diligently studied Hebrew and arithmetic. In 1944 he was in an orphanage in Jassy, the capital of Moldavia, where all the orphans were concentrated and from there transferred to Bucharest for immigration to Eretz Israel. At the end of the war, when the Russians arrived in Bucharest, they separated between the children who wanted to travel to Russia and those who wanted to immigrate to Israel. Pesach’s aunt, who lived in America, asked that he come to her but he refused, and after wandering and shaking through Bulgaria he arrived with a group of orphans in 1945 as part of the “Youth Convoy of Transnistria.” After a short period in the Atlit camp, 16-year-old Pesach arrived for training at the youth company in Kfar Yehezkel, one of the first workers’ moshavim. After his suspicion was exhausted, he became attached to the moshav and the people with great love, and with the influence of the place and the environment in which his faith in man and his values returned. Pesach, who was involved in everything that took place around him, even wrote down his thoughts and reflections about the way of settlement in general, and his opinion of the Yishuv in particular: “I was Simcha that I was returned part of what the Nazis robbed me of, family life. A second advantage is in the work area, in the moshav, and in Kfar Yehezkel, they can receive thorough training in all sectors of the agriculture, and a member of the moshav who will place the child in charge even If it is expressed in the smallest work, the boy feels better at home and in his relationship to work “… Passover was a good expression of what was on his Lev, and often served here for others:” … And here, friends, we must remember that most of our members are orphans and they did not have time to get an education MelA. Many of our friends could not find their way around society … “He believed that the moshav was capable of educating and guiding socialist fulfillment, and when he returned to it, he did not hesitate to refer to the criticism:” … The only big disadvantage is that society is becoming more difficult, The company will be more difficult to form if the youth will not have an organized club to hold talks and parties. In this area on the village repair a lot. “The integration of Pesach and his friends in Kfar Yechezkel was absolute: Hebrew was familiar with them, and in their Israeli-Israeli garb they resembled those born in the Land of Israel, but all of them came to Pesach with his cleverness and talent. The period is not deterred from mentioning the difficulties: “I say with a certain Lev that in the workplace, we leave the moshav with information that deserves to be honored. In the field of study, I feel obligated to say that we have made a lot of progress … Of course, this helped us a lot of the instructor and the committee who invested a great deal of energy and patience when we remembered that we came after most of the four years of wandering in which we had not studied and knew very little … We have almost forgotten them … Our friends have learned new orders … and this will surely help us when we are educators. “He concluded with a kind of spiritual will:” Let us do something worthy of the people of the moshav who hosted us for two years and taught us the way Socialist Zionist fulfillment will take pride in us, in the youth who return to their homeland and fertilize the wilderness. ” In 1947 he moved to the village of Kfar Yehezkel in order to meet his adoptive family and to seek friendship, and shortly before the outbreak of the War of Independence he joined the Palmach, (Near the Ramle-Latrun road) for training and training. Pesach fought in battles on the road to Jerusalem. He was severely injured in the attack on Carrot, since he was no longer fit for physical work and was assigned to the Palmach headquarters in Tel Aviv, where he held an office post.In June 1948, during the Altalena affair in Tel Aviv, And the controversy that has arisen in the history of the State of Israel, which led to the establishment of the Jewish community in Eretz Israel on the brink of civil war, and decades after its conclusion, And its voyage to the shores of the country from Port de Bouc, France, on June 11, 1948, during the first truce in the War of Independence. The Altalena was full of arms and ammunition purchased by the Irgun in France, worth five million dollars, and there were about 900 illegal immigrants who were supposed to join the Irgun in the War of Independence. With the arrival of the Altalena to Kfar Vitkin (where it was diverted following the start of the truce), on June 20, 1948, in the evening, some of the weapons were unloaded on the beach. IDF forces surrounded the area, and the Etzel commander received an ultimatum from the Ministry of Defense to immediately hand over the ship to the commander of the military force there. Violent clashes broke out between Etzel members and IDF soldiers. The Irgun commander, Menachem Begin, refused to comply with the ultimatum and decided to take the ship to Tel Aviv, where the confrontation continued on June 22, 1948. son of-Gurion’s demand for total surrender was rejected. Palmach forces were called in and exchanges of fire began, and the Irgun, about 100 of whom remained on board, suffered losses. A cannon shell fired by the IDF in the afternoon hit the ship, the Altalena began to burn and the captain ordered itTo the people to abandon. The ship, with all the weapons it had left, drowned. At the end of the incident, 16 dead Etzel members were killed: six of them fell in the Kfar Vitkin area and ten on the Tel Aviv beach, killing three soldiers: two in Kfar Vitkin and one in Tel Aviv. He was injured by the gunfire when he was at the Palmach headquarters near Tel Aviv’s seashore, and a week later, on 29 June 1948, he died of his wounds. The Irgun. They were released a few weeks later. Afterwards, the Irgun units were disbanded, and its fighters were dispersed among the various IDF units. Pesach was nineteen when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Petah Tikva. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
