Yona Hatsor 1920-2015.
Soldier in the Jewish Brigade, Haganah fighter, activist in clandestine immigration and businessman.
Yona Hatsor (1920–2015) was born Jonas Königshöfer in Cologne to a religious family. Hatsor’s father, Leopold Wolff Königshöfer, was murdered in May 1942 in the Auschwitz-Bikenau concentration camp. His mother Elsa (Lowenstein) Königshöfer, was murdered there in April 1943.
Yona Hazor in Israel
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Yona Hatsor was a member of the religious youth organization Ezra.
He joined the Jewish Brigade.
As a British soldier he was also active in the Haganah underground and organized illegal immigration of Holocaust survivors to Palestine.
In Palestine (Eretz Israel) he worked in various professions and eventually became President Chaim Weizmann’s bureau chief and a businessman.
Milestones in the life of Yona Hatsor
Yona Hatsor was born Jonas Königshöfer in Cologne.
His father fled to Belgium in 1933 and Yona moved with his mother and brother from their apartment on Hohenstaufenring Street to Dasselstrasse in Cologne, where his mother managed a small notions shop. The shop was destroyed in a pogrom in November 1938.
Hatsor managed to flee to Palestine via Italy.
