Biographies, Efrat Avigdor (Friedman El Ami Avigdor)

31.01.1918 - 08.01.2001

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Life story of Avigdor Efrat, born in Topocany, Czechoslovakia, illegal immigrant on ship the Sakarya, soldier in Jewish Palestinian unit in British Army during World War Two.
Poem "Eicha" (Lamentations), written in memory of Zeev Jabotinsky, Florence, 1944; poem "Grave of Brothers" written in memory of comrades Haim Fish and Akiva Fihel who fell in western desert, 1942.
Photographs in uniform, Italy, 1945; letter from a Jewish soldier, 1945: letter to newspaper editor about hosting soldiers in "Teivat Noah" (Noah's Ark).