Glicklich, Yehuda (Hans)

Son of Josefina and Reuven, was born on December 15, 1914 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, to an old Zionist family. From 1920 to 1926 he stayed with his parents in Trieste. Where he learned the Italian language and was called Giovanni Felici (“Simcha” – the translation of the name “Glicklich”). When he returned to Vienna with his parents in 1926, he attended high school there. In 1928 he joined the Young Maccabee movement, where he later served as the head of a group. He was active in collecting funds for the Jewish National Fund and every Zionist work, and in 1929 he visited the Zionist Congress in Zurich. After completing his matriculation exams, he immigrated to Israel in August 1933. A few months he worked in Raanana paving a road and orchards as a member of a training kibbutz. He was hired by the Italian travel agency CIT, and thanks to his knowledge and intellectual and organizational abilities, he was promoted to the rank of chief clerk in Tel Aviv in 1937 and acquired a reputation as a good friend in his office and as a person who is always willing to help others. In 1943 he, his mother, and his sister joined the British army. He served in Israel and Egypt, and when he was released at the end of the war he was appointed director of the tourism department at Peltours. Yehuda got married and was about to build his home in Israel. He was drafted into the IDF on November 10, 1948 and served as a storekeeper in the Engineering Corps camp, and on 21 December 1948, he died in tragic circumstances and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.