Wiesel, Zvi-Michael

Son of-Ethel and Hanoch was born on September 12, 1926, in the city of Kosice, Czechoslovakia, where he studied in a high school. One of the Germans hunted and captured his younger brother, who was sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp, but was saved from there, and fled to the partisans in the mountains near Banska-Bystrica, after which he returned to find his father and younger brother. Zionist movement and a member of the He – Chaluts movement decided to immigrate to Israel, and in 1946 he and his family set out on their way to the “Jewish Soldier” ship. Talit decided to join the kibbutz movement and went on to train in Mishmar Zevulun and from there to Kibbutz Yassur in the Zevulun Valley, and as a good friend, he was a good friend, outstanding in his responsibilities, tall, fair-eyed, Zvi-Michael was among the first volunteers of his kibbutz and joined Hachash in December 1947. He took part in several operations and was lightly wounded. After his recovery, he was sent to a paramedics course and afterwards to escort convoys to Yechiam and Menara. On the afternoon of March 27, 1948, at noon, a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya, to deliver supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yehiam. Near Kabri, the convoy encountered an Arab ambush. The first armored vehicle managed to break into Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but half of them fell in battle and Zvi-Michael among them. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya. His memory was placed on the pages of the booklet “Avraham Forer and Zvi Wiesel”, published by Kibbutz Yasur.