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Wirtzberger, Shaul-Leib

Wirtzberger, Shaul-Leib


Was born on 20.8.1920 in the city of Warsaw, where he had a large Hassidic concentration in the Romanian part of the Marmarosh district in northern Transylvania He studied at the Chadarim in a public elementary school in Romania and in the ” Yeshivas. “When he was drawn to the idea of” Hashomer Hatzair “, he left the yeshiva and studied mechanics, and in 1941 he immigrated to Israel on the ship Dorian 2, where he was imprisoned for a year and a half in the Atlit and Hirba camps, He served in a military camp and served as a member of the workers’ committee, and during the Haganah’s struggle against the British he volunteered for the Palmach, served in the Palmach and became commander of a boat. In demonstrating the power and the will of the Jewish stranglehold against the British regime. When he had finished his service in the Palmach, kibbutz returned to work in his parked so Nahalat Yehuda was going to settle Endor. With the outbreak of the War of Independence he returned to service in the Palmach in the Negev Brigade in the role of a lieutenant colonel. He participated in many battles, worked hard on the good of his people, and tried to make the best of them in order to liberate the homeland. While his kibbutz was on the ground, he was forced to participate in an attempt to capture the Iraq-Suiden Police, where he fell on Tuesday, June 10, 1948. He was buried in Ruhama, and on Monday, 18.5.1950, Forever in the military cemetery in Haifa.

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