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 Hanoch Bartov
was born in Palestine in 1926, one year after his parents immigrated from
Poland.
As World War II raged through Europe, he was anxious to join the Brigade to look for
Holocaust survivors. He was active in that capacity, though what awaited him and his
comrades was far worse than anything they imagined. He served as a medic, taking special
care of those survivors they encountered in DP camps.
Both a journalist and
novelist, Bartov eloquently describes first contacts with survivors. Some years ago he
wrote Brigade, a fictionalized account of the Jewish Brigade in action. Hanoch Bartov lives in a
suburb of Tel Aviv.
"We were
neither saints nor knights. We were simple Israeli Boys who understood that we stand
now for the Jewish people..."
"Soldiers are
supposed to fight, kill or be killed. And what we did as soldiers, we found dead people and
we helped them to go back to life."
"Could it not
have happened? It could not have happened. But it did happen, and we are
here."
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IN HIS OWN WORDS
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HANOCH BARTOV
PHOTO
IN HIS OWN WORDS
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