Given name: Berel Family name: Transkroit

The bunker at Mila Street No. 29 was surrounded by the Germans, who ordered all Jews to go leave. Nobody did. A German grenade made a hole in the shelter and a fusillade started. Laib Gruzalac told his comrades to fight with the enemy openly and then he jumped out of the bunker through a hole and was killed on the spot. The hail of bullets shot by the Germans was increasing. For anybody to escape through a side entrance, the German 'assault' would have to bestopped, at least for a while. Dawid Hochberg (a 19-year-old commander of a combat group at Mila and Zamenhofa Streets) decided to act. He gave his revolver to Berel Tanskroit, his best friend, and covered the escaping fighters with his own body. The Germans attacked fiercely and he was killed instantly. Before his body was removed, the others had managed to escape from the shelter.