Of the countless the horror and heroic stories of the Holocaust of European Jews, my grandfather’s story is almost forgotten and lost forever in oblivion. Asher Sigmund Zelikovich Zissman (as many of European Jews also had two names – one Jewish and the other.
My grandfather died in 1972 at the age of 56, before my brother, his oldest grandson, was born. How did survived the war? What was some of her? How did Israel come to Israel and what was his work after his immigration to Israel? All of these details were unknown to the family. One detail we knew that in the moshav as a living room in the Jerusalem Mountains, the people of the People (Beit Asher), because in the 1950s, worked on behalf of the agricultural union and the Jewish Agency to help the new immigrants from Morocco acclimate and take part in the new land.