Brenner, Jacob

He was born in 1928 in Lodz, Poland. He spent his youth in Nazi camps in hard labor. After the liberation, he joined one of the camps in Germany for a training group of the Dror movement named after Frumka. In 1946 he immigrated to Israel with the entire group on the Wedgwood. Yaakov worked in Yagur Farm and a year later joined Kibutz Kedma with his group. He trained in the kibbutz and at the beginning of the War of Independence he was drafted into the Givati ​​Brigade and served as an armored driver, accompanied by convoys in the Negev. He took part in the break-up of the roads to Gat and Nitzanim, fought in Beit Daras and in other places in the south where the campaign flared up. On April 25, 1948, while riding in a armored vehicle on the road to Masmiya, he was stopped and dismounted to deliver a message to the convoy commander. At the same time a shot was fired at him and he was critically wounded. On the way to the hospital he died of his wounds. It is assumed that the shot was fired from an English car that was passing by on the road. Jacob was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kedma.