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Gottlieb, Eliahu (Ernest)

Gottlieb, Eliahu (Ernest)

Son of Marta and Norbert. He was born on February 3, 1924, in Berlin, where he moved to the city of Worms and immigrated to Israel in 1933. In 1942, his group was set to participate in the attack on the “Darna” airfields at the enemy’s rear. Eliyahu and his friend, Peter Haas, undertook to obtain the German password that was necessary for the continuation of the operation. The car they were traveling in managed to penetrate the German camp near the airport, but inside the camp the group was arrested after one of its members (who was a German) betrayed them. Eliyahu was captured, interrogated, and executed. His burial place was unknown and he was considered missing until 1946, and only then did his parents receive a letter from the Mandate government stating the date of his death: June 12, 1942. A monument in his memory is placed on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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