Yonger, Yehoshua (Shaike)

Son of Henia and Baruch, was born on May 25, 1926, in Sighet, Hungary. From childhood he dreamed of immigrating to Palestine. With the occupation of Hungary by the Germans in 1944, his entire family was deported to the extermination camp in Auschwitz, and he remained in Budapest with a Hungarian family and worked for her as a carpenter. When the battles in Budapest began, he was arrested and sent to the front line at the front. When the Soviet army approached the city and the Germans were about to be deported to Germany, he escaped, and when he was succeeded, he was taken to a Jewish hospital in the ghetto. After the Soviet occupation, he joined the Dror-Habonim youth movement and left for Palestine via Austria. In Austria he was arrested and released by UNRWA, from there he reached the American zone in Germany, and from there, via Italy, he immigrated to Israel in August 1946. After immigrating to Israel he joined Kibbutz Machanayim, worked there in agriculture and in the cowshed, And his sisters who survived and came to Israel, lived in Nachalat Yitzhak, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, and worked in the cowshed, and was willing to help anyone and help his acquaintances to be absorbed in Israel during the War of Independence. On May 16, 1948, was injured and fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.