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Yehoshua Kremer 

Molodechno Maladzechna

Son of Batya and Baruch, born in 1928 in the city of Moloduchno, Poland. He studied in a "room" and in an elementary school. With the Nazi invasion of Poland, his father was murdered and Joshua fled with his mother and baby sister to the forest. There his mother died When the Red Army entered the area, in 1944, he left the forest, gave his sister to a Russian orphanage and he himself was admitted to a vocational school in the Ural. In 1946 he returned to Poland through the "repatriation" (return), and in Lodz joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth kibbutz, moved with the kibbutz members to Silesia and from there set out on the "escape route" via the Czech Republic, Vienna, Selfelden, crossed the Italian border And came to Aviliana near Turin. There they entered a youth institution where they studied and trained themselves in the craft with the help of "ORT". At the institution, the group was formed into a training nucleus called "Liberation." Joshua held key positions in the nucleus, as a member of the secretariat, work sorter, youth group instructor, etc. In the run-up to immigration to Israel, the nucleus merged with the "In Struggle" group into one organization called "In Test". In January 1948, their group boarded the small illegal immigrant ship "The Heroes of Gush Etzion", and after 16 days of turmoil at sea, the ship was captured by the British navy near the coast of Haifa and its illegal immigrants were sent to Cyprus. Yehoshua served as the group's secretary and teacher in one of the classrooms.
As part of the youth aliyah and some of them through recruitment to the Haganah, they immigrated to Israel on April 29, 1948 and were sent as a training nucleus to the Golan Heights Gate. He immediately hurried to see his sister, who had meanwhile been brought to Israel in the youth aliyah, but she did not remember him.

Shortly after he returned to the Golan Heights from the meeting with his sister, during the bitter battle over the Jordan Valley, our nucleus was assigned to send two men as reinforcements to the fighters of the "Golani" brigade, and fate befell him. The Syrians invaded the Jordan Valley on May 16, 1948, took control of several outposts in the area, but were stopped by our forces in the plant. On May 18, the Syrians launched an attack on a plant with the help of artillery and tanks. Our forces could not withstand the intensity of the Syrian attack, first the town of Tzemach fell and finally the police station and the defenders withdrew under the Syrian fire towards Degania. He fell in this battle on Tuesday, May 18, 1948. Joshua died in the defense of the land he lived in for a little over two weeks. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Degania A.