Goldberg, Yosef

Son of Makhl and Shraga-Feivel was born on December 24, 1926, in the town of Korashani, near Siauliai, Lithuania, in an active Zionist family. Yosef was educated in the home of his mother-in-law, Yitzhak-Moshe Perkin, and attended the Hebrew Gymnasium in Siauliai until the grandfather in 1938 liquidated his business in order to immigrate to Israel (but died on the way in Switzerland). Joseph returned to his parents’ home and continued his studies at the Gymnasium in Siauliai. At the beginning of the Nazi occupation the family was taken with all the Jews to the ghetto and his father was executed. The boy tried to work for the rest of the family in order to ease the burden of earning a living. He excelled at work and gained advantages (the possibility of leaving the ghetto and secretly bringing in food). When the Nazis began to destroy the “eaters and do not do” managed to smuggle his little sister at night and take her to a Christian house, he was then transferred to work in a sugar factory and was near his sister. With the approach of the Red Army, when Lithuanian soil began to burn under the Nazis, they took him and the rest of his family to the Dachau camp, where he continued to work until they were liberated by the American army. With the help of the Jewish Brigade, he moved to the vicinity of Bari, Italy. He contacted his uncle in Tel Aviv, who officially adopted him as a son. In his efforts, Yosef was accepted as a soldier-volunteer for the brigade and trained for about four months. When a group of Jewish soldiers left in 1946 on a British military ship to Port Said and from there on the train, they were given the ID cards of a soldier and attached to the group. In Israel he studied mechanical mechanics and electrical engineering at Montefiore vocational school and went to work in the garage. When the War of Independence began, he worked in an essential factory, but gave up his right to release and joined the Givati ​​Brigade to defend the borders of Tel Aviv. Then he went down with his battalion to the south and took part in 35 operations. On the night of June 2-3, 1948, during the “Philistine” operation, Givati ​​forces attacked the Egyptian alignment near the Ashdod Bridge (the “Ad Halom” bridge today). The assault was halted by heavy enemy fire and the forces were forced to retreat. The attack failed, but forced the Egyptians to prepare for the ground and halted their advance northwards. In this battle he fell, on the day of the fifth of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948). After about five months he was laid to rest in a grave in the Warburg military cemetery