Angrest, an avid athlete and a die-hard fan of the Maccabi Haifa soccer team, was kidnapped on October 7 from his tank while serving in the IDF. Two years later, thousands crowded the streets of northern Israel's Kiryat Bialik to witness his return, breaking into Maccabi Haifa chants and waving flags
Smuss joined the Jewish resistance in the ghetto, throwing Molotov cocktails at the Nazi soldiers from the rooftops of the ghetto. He was also one of the few resistance fighters to survive the almost one month of fighting