Zucker, Moshe

Son of Ita and Zelig was born in 1916 in Skarzysko, Poland. During the Second World War, he was drafted into the Polish army and served in the rank of corporal. Upon the conquest of Poland he fled to Russia. At first he was arrested there and tried as a spy, then he was employed and worked in various kolkhozim. After the Stalin-Sikorski agreement and the establishment of the Anders Army, he was attached to him and came with him to Israel. Even then, Adir wanted to settle in Israel, but he vowed to visit his country of origin again, in order to ask for the remains of his family, because he did not want to believe that they had indeed been destroyed. But when he returned to Poland he found no one alive, even wounded in the riots in Kielce. When he left Poland, he arrived in Germany where he met with a brother and sister who survived. He received an entry visa to the United States, but he rejected it and went on the illegal immigration route. He was a member of the Etzel and arrived in Israel on the Altalena in 1948. With the joining of former Etzel members to the Israel Defense Forces, he enlisted, served in the Carmeli Brigade and was sent to the Upper Galilee. Was a strong and courageous guy who drew the proper conclusion from all that he and his people had experienced in the Diaspora. On his only vacation, he told the company: “You know what it means that six million Jews were exterminated, but that will not happen again, we will not allow it!” On the 17th of Tammuz, 5707 (24.7.1948), Corporal Moshe fell in a grove on the Metula-Kfar Giladi road. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina. Survived by a wife, Olga, and a daughter who remained in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel in 1990.