Wysbard, Yaakov (Yankele)

Yaakov, the son of Chaya Feiga and Hillel, was born on June 20, 1931 in Poland. During the horrors of World War II, Yaakov was imprisoned with his father in internment camps. The mother had already died. The father and son remained alive and saw the day of liberation, but an American soldier accidentally killed the father, leaving Yaakov in his orphanage. Yaakov arrived at a Jewish youth camp in Italy, and from there he arrived in Israel in 1947, within the framework of the Youth Aliya. He lived here in Tel Aviv, where he found his home again with his uncles and grandfather. Yaakov served in the 52nd Battalion of the Givati ​​Brigade Negev during the War of Independence. On the 6th of Adar 5709 (March 7, 1949), Yaakov was critically wounded by sniper fire, and on the way to the hospital he died at the age of 18. He was brought to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery. Yaakov was a “Last Scion”, a survivor of the Holocaust who was the last remnant of his nuclear family, who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, and fell serving in the Israeli army.