WORLD MACHAL - Volunteers from overseas in the Israel Defense Forces

Louise (Leah) Rosenzweig

Louis (Leah) Rosenzweig, the daughter of  Nathan and Nechama,  was born in 1927 in Paris, France, where she completed High School and a School of Nursing, and  thereafter worked as a nurse.

She volunteered for service in the Haganah and arrived in Palestine, April, 1948, on a ship with other Machal from France. She served as a nurse during the siege of  Jerusalem, and, later, with the rank of sergeant in one of the battalions of the Palmach.

During a period of leave while visiting relatives in Tel Aviv, she suffered a fatal heart attack on January 12th, 1949 and was buried the next day in the Nachlat Itzhak Cemetery in Tel Aviv.