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Awed by His Grandparents' Lives, Japanese Man Joins IDF

(Israel Hayom) Danny Brenner - Daniel Tomohiro's Hungarian grandparents survived the Holocaust, made aliyah, and fought in Israel's War of Independence, but they then moved to Australia, where his mother met and married a Japanese man and moved to Japan. Now Tomohiro has come full circle and is serving in the IDF. "My parents married and moved to Japan, but at home they kept talking about Israel," Tomohiro said. "My family is very pro-Israel and loves the state, and I believe the Israel Defense Forces is the most moral military in the world." "I arrived here for the first time only when I was 18, with my parents and younger brother. My older brother had already made aliyah and was in the IDF Spokesperson's Unit." "The service means a lot to me and my family. My grandmother was in Auschwitz. She survived only because a German nurse covered her with a blanket when Dr. Josef Mengele came to visit. He thought she was dead and this saved her life, because he didn't perform experiments on her....The Holocaust happened because there was no State of Israel. I am happy to contribute to the security of the state, to make the IDF and Israel strong, and to prevent another Holocaust."
2016-01-08 00:00:00
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