Does anyone know in which village Yitzhak Biran was borne?
After the death of his first wife my great-grandfather Yaakov Fruchter
from the village of Klivodyn married a woman who's last name was
Birnbaum
and they had three children, who's descendants still live in the US
and in Israel.
Mimi
On Jan 18, 2015, at 5:12 AM, Saraf, Oren wrote:
> Few weeks ago the Bukovina Organization arranged a meeting with
> Yitzhak Biran.
> He told us his story, a child that was born in a small village not
> far from Czernowitz, his survival as a young orphan in Transnistria
> and with the red army unit that adopted him (used his multi lingual
> skills to assist them with domestic girls...).
> Later he joined a youth movement, was on the Exodus, was deported
> back to Europe.
> He came back to Israel to kibbutz Ein Harod, where he was
> assimilated with the local Sabras, as Meir Har Zion.
> He joined the IAF and became pilot, and in the six day war he was a
> squadron commander.
> At that time, out of approximately 340 pilots, about 140 were
> holocaust survivors, but none of them talked about it.
>
> Later he served as ELAL captain for 30 years.
> recently, together with other IAF holocaust survivor pilots, he
> opened up his story.
>
> Last summer, they had the premier of the film they made.
> In the middle of the premier he received announce that his
> granddaughter fiancé, maj. Bnia Sarel, was killed in a battle in
> the operation in Gaza, just a few days before their wedding.
>
> Oren
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