Glicksman, David
Son of Leah and Moshe, was born on 23.11.1913 in Czestochowa, Poland. When it was his turn to immigrate to Israel, he relinquished his right of sacrifice: he gave his money to one of his brothers to immigrate to Israel and thus be freed from service in the Polish army. But he himself was drafted into the army at the beginning of World War II. After the conquest of Poland he managed to escape the Germans and continued to work in the Czestochowa factory. He continued his work while imprisoned in the large ghetto, and after the liquidation of most of the Jews, even in the small ghetto. At the same time, he was active in the underground in the ghetto and specialized in digging bunkers and underground tunnels and tried with his friends in a bitter and futile effort to contact the Polish Socialist underground outside the ghetto and to receive arms and aid from them, but they encountered harsh and even treacherous alienation. At the time of liquidation of the small ghetto he managed to escape alone and with the help of a Polish friend found a way to the forest. The Polish partisans refused to accept Jews to their ranks, and he and a few Jewish members lived for over a year in a Jewish partisan group surrounded by German dangers and hostility from the Poles. After the liberation he fell ill, and when he recovered he left for Romania, where he devoted himself to the Bericha service and helped many to reach Italy in order to immigrate to Israel. In the course of this period, he immigrated to Israel with his brother and joined his friends at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. In spite of his exhaustion with his suffering and effort, he immediately joined the work and tried to do even more than he could, as he always did, but remained isolated from the group of his own age. In the winter of 1948, at the outbreak of the War of Independence, he offered his service in the planning of the excavations and the bunkers, as an experienced expert in the Czestochowa ghetto, and when his proposal was not accepted, he carried on with the duty of guarding, digging and observation posts. He worked in the observation post without replacement and without any complaint, until on the tenth of Iyar 5708 (May 19, 1948) he was hit by a bullet and fell. David was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Yad Mordechai.
