Wolf, Hadassah

The daughter of the girl and Yitzhak (Isidor) was born on 20 October 1925 in the town of Wieszmatt, Austria, in a traditional Jewish home, and attended a Christian school in her hometown until the middle of 1938. After the annexation of Austria by Germany, – A Jewish book in Vienna In the summer of 1940, Hadassah and her family managed to escape from Austria and join a group of refugees who had settled in the illegal immigration to Eretz Israel, On the way to Eretz Israel, at the end of 1940, the three ships “Atlantic”, “Pacific” and “Milus” reached the territorial waters of Palestine, The British navy intercepted the ship “Patria”, which was supposed to transport the illegal immigrants to Mauritius, and the Hagana, which tried to thwart the plot, succeeded in planting a bomb in the ship’s belly. In which 250 of the immigrants drowned and among the survivors were Hadassah, her parents, and her sister, who were sent to the detention camp at Atlit, after which a group of religious youth organized to settle in the south. Hadassah learned sewing and cutting in Haifa, the city where her parents lived, and after a few years she joined the group again and married Yosef, a member of the group. In 1947 their daughter Batya was born. During the War of Independence, on the 24 th of May 1948, an Egyptian plane appeared in the skies of the kibbutz and dropped bombs on it. Hadassah, who was pregnant, was killed in the bombing. She was laid to rest in the cemetery in Yavneh. She left husband, daughter, parents, sister and brother. Her name was immortalized in a booklet published by the group in memory of those who fell in the 1948 system – in which members note its three main characteristics: “simplicity, gentleness and humility.”