Zvi Ben-Yehuda was born on June 12, 1931 in Cologne, Germany as Hermann Unger. He grew up with five older brothers in an Orthodox Jewish family.
His father was a religion teacher in the Adas Yeshurun community, which had originally come from Frankfurt am Main.
7, 1941, the Unger family was deported to the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp, and subsequently to the Stutthof concentration camp.
Ben-Yehuda was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, and after the concentration camp was dismantled, he was liberated by the allies near Neustadt, Germany.
The brothers of the Unger family (in the middle, Zvi Ben-Yehuda (Hermann Unger).
בשנת 1981 זכתה בפרס ישראל על מפעל חיים על תרומתה המיוחדת לחברה ולמדינה בשירותי רווחה, קהילה ונוער.
He attended Moriah Jewish elementary school.
Ben-Yehuda came to live in Palestine and served in the Israel Defense Forces.
He later worked for the Haifa municipality and in the 1980s he organized youth exchanges between Israel and Germany.
Milestones in the life of Zvi Ben-Yehuda
Zvi Ben-Yehuda was born on June 12, 1931 in Cologne, Germany. On December 7, 1941, the Unger family was deported to the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp.
The Unger family was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp.
Ben-Yehuda was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, and after the concentration camp was dismantled, he was liberated by the allies near Neustadt, Germany.
In 1947, Ben-Yehuda came to live in Palestine and served in the Israel Defense Forces.
