“I think the phrase ‘never again’ isn’t just a passive phrase that we have to say,” Captain A. reflected in an interview with The Media Line, linking his grandfather’s survival story to his own decision to serve in the IDF. For the Deputy Company Commander for Medical Affairs in Battalion 7475, the sentence is not rhetorical. It is the framework through which family history, national responsibility, and personal service converge.
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Captain A.’s grandfather, who passed away only a few months ago, was born in Kassel, Germany, into a world that would soon collapse. At the outbreak of the war, his father managed to escape to England, but the rest of the family was not as fortunate. “Him, his mother, and his younger brother were sent to various camps and ghettos,” Captain A. said. In one of the labor camps, the family followed a brutal routine. His grandfather and his mother were sent out to work each day, while his younger brother, too young to be useful, remained behind.
“One day when they came back, his brother disappeared,” he recalled. There was never an explanation. “There is no documentation or record of what happened to him.
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