Gottliebowski, Yehuda (Yeidek)
Son of Breindel and Yohanan, was born on May 4, 1917 in Kolo, Poland. He was educated in an assimilated environment, received a high school education and acquired his Zionist training in the youth movement. He emigrated to an agricultural kibbutz in Czestenyev, immigrated with his first group of friends on the ship “Assimi” in 1939, and was one of the founders of the group that founded the Nitzanim group. During the Second World War he enlisted in the first kibbutz recruitment and worked in the maps department of the British Engineers Corps. He served in the Middle East and participated in the El Alamein system. When he was released he returned to Nitzanim and worked in the fodder industry. When the War of Independence broke out he served as the group’s driver. One of the convoys was lightly wounded, but managed to reach the market with wounded and weapons. When the group came under siege, he fought as a machine gunner. On the 26th of Adar II 5708 (March 26, 1948), when he was guarded at an observation post during an attack on Nitzanim, he fell and was buried there. He left a wife and daughter who was born after his death and is named after him. A page dedicated to his memory in the booklet “Nitzanim under siege and in battle”.
