Goldstein, Yehuda (Leon)
Son of Borosh and Moshe, was born in 1910 in Gombin, Poland. He grew up and was educated in his parents’ home in the atmosphere of veteran Zionists and the special shade of his Zionism he received in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Yehuda served in the Polish army as an artillery officer and in his civilian life he printed. The rapid advance of the German invasion of World War II made it impossible for him to join his battalion. His family was taken to the ghetto and transferred to the Auschwitz extermination camp. Yehuda survived with his two young brothers, and after the German emigration he reached the She’erith Hapleitah camp in Zeilsheim, near Frankfurt am Main, where he devoted himself to the organization of Hashomer Hatzair and founded the “Unterwegs” “Andrea” and arrived in November 1947. He tried to bring his two brothers to Israel, but in the meantime the War of Independence broke out and he accepted the call of the homeland and volunteered for the Haganah before his enlistment and served in the Kiryati Brigade. (29.2.1948) was killed while carrying out his duties in the “Yotzek” factory, and another factory, “Spirat”, adjacent to the Holon Junction, A British army force arrived with him, along with Arab gangs, and the British confiscated the defenders’ weapons and left the area by abandoning the men of the position, without weapons, to the mercy of the Arabs. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.
