Help Publish the Story of Holocaust Survivor Yossi Peled

A child hidden from the Nazis. A Holocaust survivor. An immigrant to Israel. A soldier. A Major General. A life story that must not be forgotten.

The regathering, restoration, and reconciliation of everyone who is connected to the God of Israel is the reason B’ney Yosef North America exists. That is why we were honored to accept our friend Gidon Ariel’s invitation to take part in the We Must Not Forget project.

We asked Gidon to recommend the story of a Holocaust survivor whose Jewish identity had been hidden, but who discovered and embraced his identity later in life.

Gidon suggested that we sponsor the translation of A Military Man, the story of Major General (Res) and former Member of the Knesset and government minister Yossi Peled.

Yossi Peled was born into the inferno of the Holocaust. As a young child, he was handed over to a non-Jewish family who hid him in a cellar during the war. After the Holocaust, soldiers of the Jewish Brigade found him and helped return him to the Jewish people.

Yossi eventually immigrated to Israel, joined a kibbutz, and began building a new life. The little boy who survived the Holocaust would grow up to devote his life to defending the Jewish people.

He served for thirty years in the Israel Defense Forces, rising through the Armored Corps to become a Major General and Commander of Israel's Northern Command. He was even a contender for the position of IDF Chief of Staff.

For many years, however, Yossi rarely spoke about the childhood that had shaped him. Eventually, he confronted his past and recognized how deeply it had influenced his life and military career. His determination to ensure that what happened to his family and six million Jews would never happen again became a driving force in his life.

Help Us Bring Yossi's Story to the English-Speaking World

Yossi Peled's autobiography, A Military Man, tells the remarkable story of his survival, immigration to Israel, and thirty-year military career. It has already been published and is a best-seller in Hebrew. Now we want to publish Yossi's story in English and make it accessible to readers around the world.

We need to raise $7,000 to make that happen.

The sponsorship covers the complete process of bringing his story into English and producing a professionally published book, including translation, editing, proofreading, design, formatting, publication, and project management.

B’ney Yosef North America invites you to join us in ensuring Yossi Peled’s extraordinary story of survival, rebuilding, courage, and service will not be forgotten.

About We Must Not Forget

We Must Not Forget was launched with the publication of Through Faith and Fire: The Life of Rabbi Eliyahu Dermer. Building on that first book, our mission is to publish 100 Holocaust survivor autobiographies in English for the first time, preserving these personal testimonies and making them accessible to future generations.

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