Goldschild, David

Son of Gittel and Yechezkel was born on February 21, 1929 in the city of Khust, Carpathian Russia, where he was educated in a Hebrew national religious school and later studied at a Hebrew Gymnasium in Kosice, and was taken with his parents and sister to the camp during the Second World War Auschwitz, where his parents were exterminated and taken to forced labor camps When the Russians approached and hid in an abandoned German city, he joined the Red Army and deserted to search for his sister and the remains of his family, He was able to reach his hometown and found no trace of his family and his property, and he wandered to the DP camps in Innsbruck, Austria) met with his sister David joined the “Youth Aliyah” and immigrated to Israel in the spring of 1946. His uncle, a resident of Haifa, entered the agricultural school in Mikvah Israel, where he studied for eight months and excelled in his studies and behavior. As he told his friends, he often decided in the forced-labor camps to go to the electrified barbed wire fence and end his life, but he did not want to go to the ghetto, The commandment of his father is in his last days: “David, be strong, for you must live, if not for your sake David joined the Hapoel Hamizrachi and the religious sports association Elitzur. As a member of the Haganah from Mikvah Israel, he moved to the city’s security services in the winter of 1948. Afterward, he left his position and joined the Carmeli Brigade in a religious company and participated in the battles in Haifa and the surrounding area, the liberation of Acre, (June 3, 1948) returned to his unit at the front of Jenin, where he was hit in the head by a sniper’s bullet and fell, and David was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Afula.