Goldman, Baruch

Baruch, son of Mantil and Mendel Goldman, was born in 1928 in Mezrich, Poland. Upon the capture of their city by the Nazis, his mother and sisters were murdered and Baruch fled to the forests. He wanted to join the partisans who fought the German occupier but was not accepted because of his youth. At the end of 1944 he returned to his hometown and worked in the Bolshevik, in order to discover the Poles who cooperated with the German murderers. In May 1945, he went on a “Underground Road” to Italy and immigrated to Israel on the “Dov Hoz” ship that left the port of La Spezia. At first he was in the “youth society”, and later moved to the city and worked in construction, and lived in Kiryat Chaim. Baruch joined the Carmeli Brigade in January 1948 and took part in operations in the Western Galilee. On the afternoon of 16 Adar 2, March 27, 1948, at noon, a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya to deliver supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yichiam. Near Kabri, the convoy encountered an Arab ambush. The first armored vehicle managed to break into Yechiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but half of them fell in battle, including Baruch. He was brought to rest in a grave in the military cemetery in Nahariya.