Erndtheim, Arie (Kurt)

Son of-Orna (Chana) and Arthur (Avraham) was born on November 28, 1919, in the city of Erfurt in Germany, where he visited the Gymnasium in Erfurt until his sixteenth year. They settled in Ramat Gan, and he himself spent one year at Kvutzat Shiller, but left to continue his studies at the Tel-Aviv High School for Commerce, and completed his first aid course in 1938. He was a member of Magen David Adom. He joined the British Army and served in the Royal Signal Corps, including in Iraq, Syria and North Africa, where he specialized in telephone repairs, telegraphs, telegrams, radio and more. After his release from the army on May 31, 1946, he worked for the newspaper Haaretz and with the decision of the UN General Assembly to partition the country, On the 25th of Iyar, May 3, 1948, he fell in the bombing of the General Staff. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.