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Goldstein, Chaim Karl (“Curly”)

Goldstein, Chaim Karl (“Curly”)

Son of Richard. He was born on June 10, 1923 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, to an affluent and assimilated family. The annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany led to the termination of his studies in the Vienna High School and his approach to Judaism and Zionism. At the beginning of 1939 he immigrated to Eretz Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah. And belonged to the youth group that received training in Kfar Vitkin. After two years of training, he established with his friends the “Yogev” groups that settled in Beer Tuvia, in order to continue preparing their members for settlement life. Chaim was diligent and honest and full of joy and vitality. The days were World War II and Chaim joined the British Army and was assigned to the infantry. He did his service in Haifa and continued his ties with his group. On 13.3.1942, he died of pneumonia and was laid to rest in the new cemetery in Haifa. His parents who remained in Vienna perished in the Holocaust. His memory was immortalized in the journal “Youth” in the “Talim” booklet, in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the “Yearbook of the Journalists” and in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute.

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