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Berlinger, Yaakov

Berlinger, Yaakov

Son of Henrietta and Avraham. Born in the village of Popenlauer in Bavaria, Germany, on March 23, 1915, his father was a teacher in the Jewish school of the small community, and in the absence of Jewish children of his age, Yaakov grew up as a lonely but indomitable child and attracted to nature. When he enlisted in the Palmach, Yaakov served as a company medic, and during his free time he also contributed from his experience as an electrician. “The Night of the Bridges,” in which Palmach units set out to blow up eleven roads and tracks in eight places in the country in order to detach it from neighboring countries, Yaakov the paramedic went out with a Palmach unit to blow up two bridges, the railway bridge and the road bridge, which were leaning on Nachal Akhziv. The unit encountered fire and the fourteen soldiers were killed. They were buried in a mass grave in the cemetery on the Carmel coast, and he left a wife, a son and a father.

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