Emanuel Menachem Mermelstein

Born in 1916 in the village of Pavlova in the area called Carpeto-Ross (or Zakacarpetia and also Ruthenia) then controlled by Hungary. Later on they moved to Monchac, the county town. The area moved to Czechoslovakia after the First World War. At military age, he underwent military training in Czechoslovakia. In 1938 the region moved to Hungary under the Munich Agreements. Then the Jews began to bully. In November 1939, he fled with his wife to the Soviet Union. With the establishment of the Czech battalion, under the command of Sabovoda later the president of Czechoslovakia, he joined his ranks. The battalion numbered around 1,000 soldiers, many of them Jews. During his service he was trained as an officer, and earned the rank of Second Lieutenant. With the battalion took part in battles around Kharkov and later, the liberation of Ukraine.

In late 1943, near the Ukrainian city of Nezhina, at the Yachnovka train station, while on a train that brought them back to the front, he was hit by a bomb, where he was killed along with another 52 soldiers from the battalion. Some of the fallen were from Zacacarpetti and probably Jews.