Goldman, Nahum

Son of Sarah and Joseph. He was born on December 6, 1919, in the city of Bendaria in Bessarabia, which belonged to Russia, where Nahum attended elementary school and high school and in 1919, at the end of World War I, illegally immigrated to Palestine with his father and brothers They arrived on the ship to the city of Tire in Lebanon, crossed the border unseen and walked on foot to Jaffa, and Nahum went to Petach Tikva the next day and began to work as a laborer in the orchards of the moshava, And completed his first officers’ course for police officers in Jerusalem, and a few years later the entire family who remained abroad joined them. During his service Nahum studied Hebrew, Arabic and English, and in the evenings he studied law. In 1925 he married Shoshana Resnick and the couple had three daughters. The wife and the girls went with him to all the police stations in which he served: Jerusalem, Auja el-Hafir, Be’er Sheva, Ramle, Rehovot, Herzliya and Jaffa, Ramat Gan and Safed, and finally in Tel Aviv. More than once, the Goldman family was a lonely Jewish family among many Arabs, but Nachum did not abandon his post even during riots and riots. Nahum joined the Hagana news service and as an officer in the British police, he succeeded in thwarting actions against the Haganah and on the other hand, to convey useful information. He also dealt with transferring weapons to the Haganah. As the Irgun and Lehi intensified their activities against British institutions in Palestine, a special department, the Jewish Division, headed by officers Morton Wilkins, was set up in the British platoon to prevent, in all ways, the activities of these organizations. In cooperation with Jewish officers and policemen, this department accumulated many testimonies and incriminating details against Etzel and Lehi members. On January 20, 1942, Lehi activists planted a remote-controlled mine in a room on the roof of 8 Yael Street in Tel Aviv, in addition to setting up a light explosion and splashing chicken blood on the walls of the stairwell. The neighbors alerted to the sound of the explosion called the British police, but not as expected, Morton and Wilkins did not arrive. The officers and policemen who had arrived were killed and wounded by the explosion of the trapped room. The Jewish officer Maj. Shlomo Schiff was killed in the blast, while Officer Goldmann and British officer Treton, who executed Shlomo Ben-Yosef at the time, were seriously injured. On January 21, 1942, Nahum Goldmann died of his wounds and was buried in a full police ceremony at the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, leaving a wife and three daughters, parents, four sisters and two brothers. Are included in the books “Wanted”, “The Hebrew Policeman during the Mandate Period” and “The Etzel Book”