Brod, Hanoch

Son of Johanna and Siegfried. He was born on November 11, 1914 in Berlin, Germany. In 1932 he decided to prepare himself for a working life in the Land of Israel. In 1933, after Hitler took power in Germany, he immigrated to Eretz Israel. In Israel he worked for six months in Tel Aviv as an apprentice in mechanics. In October 1933, when the first group from the Histadrut arrived in Israel, he joined it and moved to Nu’man. His absorption in the kibbutz was not easy. Nevertheless, he got absorbed in it, married one of the members of the kibbutz and there they also had a son. As before, he did not stop asking for ways to bring his parents from Germany to Israel. After six years in the kibbutz, he enlisted in the Nutras in the hope that it would make it easier for him to obtain an immigration permit for his parents. He was attached to the “moving guard” and moved to the settlement of Mazkeret Batya (Ekron). On August 9, 1939, after joining the “Movement Guard”, he and four of his friends went to check the road between Mazkeret Batya and Hulda. Hanoch drove the car and on their way back they ran over a powerful mine. Three of the guards were killed on the spot, Hanoch was badly burned but ran, in shock, to call for help without feeling his clothes burning. The medical treatment he received did not help, and he was laid to rest in a mass grave in Gedera. He left a wife and a son.