Zauer, Yehuda (Leo)

Son of Tovah and David, was born on the day of Tu B’Av, 5708 (1.8.1928) in the city of Pecz, Hungary. Upon the Nazi occupation of Hungary, he was interned in a concentration camp and was subjected to exhausting work throughout the bloody rule. Upon the liberation of the camp refugees, he hurried to his hometown to ask for the remains of his family. Where he discovered the traces of his two sisters who had emigrated from the city and expected their return. After the meeting with them he wandered to Italy on his way to Palestine and promised his sisters to bring them to Israel after he arrived. In Italy he boarded the illegal immigrant ship “Palmach” and after 12 days he reached the shores of the country, where the ship was captured by a British battleship and surrendered after a difficult and desperate battle. 1946, and was imprisoned for a while in a detention camp in Atlit, where he joined the Navarry Corps in Kfar Yona, where he joined the Alexandroni Brigade and took part in the battles in the Negev, Horev, “a” liquidation “operation was carried out against the” Faluja pocket, “in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The forces of “Alexandroni” broke into the village from the south and took control of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed, and meanwhile the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw, , On December 28, 1948. On the 11th of Tevet 5709 (11.1.1949), he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rehovot.