Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1912, died in Israel in February 2005

My father, Dr. M.D. David Nachimzon, born in 1912 in Warsaw Poland, As a young boy his father Wolf Nachimzon, moved from Warsaw to Wloszczowa for his work at Radom-Kielce district and brought with him his family to the town of Wloszczowa.As a young student in University, my father returned to Warsaw and lived at his uncle Wolowelski. He graduated from medical school of dentistry in 1935 and went to brest Litovsk to work at the clinic of a family relatives there.In 1939 the war started and Russians occupied Brest Litovsk and he found himself at the Russian side without having the possibility to return to Poland. He was sent to Syberia to a working camp and worked at the camp hosital as a dentist. He joined the Russian army as a Polish citizen and in the camp he met my mother Fela Blumenkranc, they married there.My father, my mother, her parents, sister and two brothers have been sent to the south of Russia, Uzbekistan, Namangan.My father returned to his military camp and passed all the war in the front fighting the Nazi's till they arrived to Berlin. He was officer and received 3 medals of honor one of them is the silver cross. He brought his family together with my brother Wolf-Zeev, that was born there,from Uzbekistan to Poland and found out that all members of his family were exterminated in the Nazi camps.They resided in Szczecin (near Berlin) where I was born in 1947. In 1949 my family moved to Israel and my father joined the Israeli army as a dentist, soon after he became a kolonel and chief of the dentistry department in the army, in 1960 he left the army and went to Munchen, Germany to finish the M.D in dentistry, after that he returned and opened a private clinic in Ramat Gan, Israel.He worked as a dentist till the age of 85 and drove his car till the age of 91, he died in 2005 at the age of 92.5 having 2 children, 5 grand children and 3 grand grand children.On his grave stone there is dedication for all members of his family ,murdered in the war, which never had a grave;

on the right side is my father and my mother at the seventies, on the left side is my father holding his grand grand son Trevor,few months before he died in February 2005 at the age of 92.5