Wiesel, Meir

Meir, son of Hanna and Yitzhak, was born on 24.5.1929 in the city of Stammar, Transylvania, Romania. During the Second World War he was sent to the Auschwitz death camp and saw with his own eyes the destruction of his parents, two brothers and a sister. Immediately after the liberation he set out for Palestine and arrived here on May 18, 1946. He immediately joined the youth company in the field of Nahum, which established the Eshet nucleus. About two weeks before the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, he enlisted in the army and completed a course for squad commanders, but he left it and served as a regular corporal. Since then, he did not separate from his machine gun and on a journey of many kilometers, he fell in his charge of attacking the enemy. On the 10th of Tammuz (17.7.1948) he fell on the mountain ridge between Yalu and Latrun as he was about to use the machine gun. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Har-Herzl in Jerusalem.