Fragment, Isser

Son of Rachel and Benjamin, was born in September 1918 in Radakna, Latvia. Where he graduated from school and later worked as a carpenter. When the German-Russian war broke out, he was drafted in July 1941 as a Latvian citizen of the Soviet Army. Fought in the front and was wounded in the leg. After the victory over the Germans, he returned home in 1945 and found his city destroyed, only his parents’ house remained intact, but empty and deserted. Only his brothers, somewhere in Russia, and his sister in Eretz Israel survived his extended family. Isser set out on the “Bericha route” to Italy and joined a kibbutz (communal group) of the Dror youth movement. In May 1947, he boarded the “Ghetto Rebels” and was deported to Cyprus. In order to expedite his arrival in Israel he joined the Haganah underground in the camp and on February 17, 1948, he immigrated as a tourist on the “Kedma” ship and was immediately sent to a military course. In the spring Issar received a recuperation vacation for two months. He wanted to work on leave and was sent by the Labor Bureau for the evacuation of rubble in Manshiyya and was killed in the collapse of a house on May 30, 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.