Berliner, Yosef

Son of Rivka and Yitzhak, was born in May 1920 in the city of Leipzig, Germany. He was the youngest of eight children. Joseph grew up in a crisis and the rise of the Nazis to power and from his early childhood knew the life of toil and work. After graduating from a public school he acquired the carpentry profession. Joseph arrived in Israel in 1938 as an immigrant on a ship caught near Ashdod. After his release from a short detention in Sarafand, he spent two years at Kibbutz Yagur with his brother, who was early to immigrate and was a member of the kibbutz. Afterward, he settled in Tel Aviv, where he worked first in the British Shakem and later in a private restaurant as a cook, and the news of the destruction of most of the family was repressed by the Nazis. Upon his conscription he was sent to Ruchama and attached to the Palmach battalion in the Negev Brigade. He participated in escorting convoys, guarding posts in the Negev and conquering the Arab village of Barir. He left with the reinforcements sent to Mordechai. On his return he received a short vacation and then returned to the Negev, first to a man with and from there to the outpost near Hulikat. Even before the first truce ended, the Egyptians advanced and attacked and occupied the outposts of our forces in the area. In this battle he fell in his capacity as a machine gunner on July 1, 1948. On Sunday, July 5, 1951, he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.