Eckstein, Yitzhak

Yitzhak, son of Rachel and Gershon-Chanoch Eckstein, was born in 1924 in the city of Belchatow, Poland. He attended high school and joined the Pioneer Youth. After the outbreak of World War II, he was sent to Siberia and later was moved to a more southern area. Yitzhak slipped into a Polish battalion sent to the Middle East. In Iraq he was captured, recruited as a soldier and the battalion arrived in Israel in 1943. Yitzhak began working in weaving and eventually married and had a son. As a member of the Hagana, Yitzhak was drafted into service in the first stage of the War of Independence and served in the “Kiryati” Brigade. On the 3rd of Adar I, February 13, 1948, at the time of the transfer of a communication from his commander, he fell in the Hatikva neighborhood of Tel Aviv and was laid to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.