Golomb, Dov

He was born in 1927 in Poland. At the beginning of the Second World War he found himself together with his parents in the eastern part of the country, in the Russian occupation zone (it is not known whether they arrived there as refugees or were residents). Due to their refusal to receive Soviet citizenship they were exiled to slave labor in the forests of northern Siberia. Where his parents and all his family perished in hunger and pestilence and he survived. When the Germans attacked Russia and “pardoned” the Polish exiles, the boy wandered southward and in 1943 arrived in Israel with a convoy of the “Tehran children.” In Israel, he recovered from his past depression, filled with hope and confidence, looked forward to a Simcha future, did not say much about his past, and therefore did not know the names of his parents. He participated in the treatment of fruit trees in Petach Tikvah, where he fought for the homeland and served as a machine gunner in one of the units of the Alexandroni Brigade and took part in the conquest of Tel Litvinsky (Tel Hashomer), Hiriya, Salameh where he fell on Wednesday, May 13, 1948. A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The place is a memorial for those whose burial place is unknown.