Ramot Menashe: Memories from the First Decade (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781475251517)

Abraham (Abrashka) Vered was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1924. He studied to be a locksmith at the Hebrew School 'Culture' and at 'Ort' and later became an electrician. His parents David and Rachel Varat, his sister Liba and her family, and his younger sister Golda, were all killed by the Nazis. His brother Eliyahu joined the partisans and the red army. Abrashka was a prisoner in Meidanek, Aushwitz-Birkenau, Bonei-Monovitz, Dora-Nordhausen, and Bergen-Belsen. In 1946 he came to Israel with the Bonnei HaNegev group who were the founders of Kibbutz Ramot Menashe in 1948. He served as an officer in the Golani army brigade and has held many central roles in the Kibbutz as well as working in the field crops, the carpentry and metal workshops, Arad and Aram. Today, he and his wife enjoy spending time with their daughter Gila's family, and they are grandparents to granddaughter Noy and grandson Nave.