A major reason for my effort to preserve my father’s heritage is my hope that survivors will remember my father and that memory wilk add a bit to the work of scholars like Ken Waltzer who are trying to resopnstruct the story of Buchenwald.
From Ken’s post on FACEBOOK:
Many Buchenwald boys from kinderblock 66 who came to Palestine 1945-48 enlisted — after time in the Magdiel Agricultural School or on a kibbutz — in the Palmach, which later in mid 1948 was absorbed into the new IDC. They fought in the war of independence, and several were wounded; at least one former Buchenwalder died fighting in the defense of Jerusalem near Sheik Jarrah. The fighter to the left was Mayer Fruchter, who fought and was wounded in Israel’s north.
The fallen soldier was Mor Willinger.
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