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sank within four minutes. Amongst the 664 casualties were 139 members of the 462nd. Amazingly, Freier survived. In 1946, he joined other former 462nd members in the clandestine "Ha’Chavura" organization, also known as "The Shadow Unit", whose aim was to assist Jewish refugees and bring them to
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Department of Mathematics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Upon completing his first year, his mother arrived and settled in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem, after which he joined the British Army in 1941, and served in the Jewish 462nd General
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