Estreicher, Isaac

Son of Malka and Yaakov, was born on 27.6.1926 in Sosnowiec, Poland. After graduating from school, he studied carpentry and worked there. During the Second World War, when the Nazis transferred all the Jews to the death camps, he was sent to forced labor and remained alive. At the time of liberation he was in a labor camp in Germany, moved to Belgium and joined a training commune organized by members of the Jewish Brigade. With the help of the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, he was dressed as a soldier and sent home to be released as a Palestine volunteer. In 1946, he arrived in Israel without a permit and without any problems awaiting an “illegal” immigrant. Yitzhak spent a week at Kibbutz Na’an and then came to his aunt and uncle’s home in Ra’anana. He worked in various jobs, mainly in the carpentry industry, and was acceptable to all his acquaintances and acquaintances. After the outbreak of the War of Independence, he joined the ranks of the Alexandroni Brigade and participated in all the operations of the brigade. About a month after the declaration of the state, his sister, the only surviving soul of his family, arrived in Israel and he managed to see her twice on his way home for short vacations. During Operation Danny, he served in the platoon commanded by Avraham Micharovski, his aides and benefactors as a soldier in the Belgian Brigade. On July 15, 1948, in the evening, his company replaced another company from the brigade in the posts east of Kula and had not yet managed to prepare and dig in properly. On the morning of the 9th of Tammuz 5708 (July 16, 1948), the Legion attacked the fort with artillery and armored cars, and they overrun the position of the platoon in the front post and forced the company to retreat, including its commander, Micharovski, The military cemetery in Netanya was commemorated in the book “The Fifty Minutes of Kola” by Shmuel Schwartz.