Weissberg, Ephraim
Son of Rachel-Leah and Joseph, was born on November 10, 1919 in the city of Dukla, West Galicia. Ephraim studied in the “cheder” and in the elementary school, and later studied the seamstress’s work and worked there. He belonged to a Zionist youth movement. When World War II broke out, he fled from the German army, which was advancing rapidly, to East Galicia, which had been occupied by the Russians. From there he was sent to a labor camp with other refugees, subjects of Poland, and worked in the far north, near the Finnish border. In the wake of the Stalin-Sikorski agreement, he was released in 1942, like other Polish citizens, and moved to work in conditions of free labor in Siberia. In 1946, he returned with the Polish citizens who had been returned to their homeland, but found no homeland in Poland where his father’s house and his people were destroyed, and continued on to a DP camp in Germany to immigrate to Palestine. He had expected it for two years, and in the meantime he married and had a daughter. When he arrived in Israel in October 1948, he was immediately drafted into the IDF and was Simcha, after being shaken for many years by foreign uniformed men, to serve in the army and his army, and was killed in an accident in a military camp in Ramle on Thursday, 4.2.1949). He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion.
