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Willian, Meshulam

Willian, Meshulam

Meshulam, son of Liba and Ze’ev Willian, was born in 1923 in Chorog, Yugoslavia. In 1941, the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia and the area where he lived was transferred to the Hungarians, who accused Meshulam of helping the underground movement. All the years of the Hungarians’ rule were spent in wanderings and slave labor until the Germans caught him and sent him to a concentration camp on German soil. When he was liberated by the American army, he returned to his native country but when he discovered that all his relatives had been exterminated, Meshulam moved to Hungary to a training camp and from there to Italy, where he was active in the Haganah and specialized in various types of weapons. Meshulam arrived in Israel on August 15, 1948, and after training for six weeks he was sent to the front of Jerusalem, where he fell on the 14th of Tishrei, October 17, 1948, when he stood at the outpost protecting the “Burma” road. He was buried in Sheikh Bader Aleph. On the 17th of Elul, (August 30, 1950) he was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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