Emmanuel Landau
Emmanuel (Emil) Landau (Hebrew: עמנואל לנדאו; 1928–1948) was a Palmach fighter who was rewarded with the Hero of Israel.He was born on November 10, 1928, in Warsaw, Poland. He and his younger sister fled from Poland to the Soviet Union on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. His father fell ill during his service in the Red Army, and died before the end of the war. His mother Fania handed him and his sister Elina (later Ilana) to a Christian orphanage, because she could not support them. A few months later, an emissary from Youth Aliyah arrived at the orphanage to take the Jewish children.