Gutman, Mordechai (baby)
Mordechai, the son of Feiga and Aharon, was born in 1924 in Poland, in Płońsk, in the Warsaw District, and grew up in Sochocin, near Płońsk, where he completed an elementary school. The Jewish education, the Hebrew language and the Zionist spirit were among the cornerstones of the town, where David son of-Gurion was born and educated, who would later declare the establishment of the State of Israel and head it on September 1, 1939. When World War II broke out with Germany, With the conquest of Płońsk by the Germans, the Jews’ homes were looted and forced labor was brought in. 90 The remaining Jewish families in the town were imprisoned in the ghetto in October He was sent to forced labor camps at the beginning of the war, but he was forced to see the day of liberation, and after the war he remained the sole survivor of his family. With the help of soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, he moved to Italy and on June 19, 1946 he boarded the ship “Josiah Wedgwood” organized by the Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet of the Haganah, and was arrested by the British on arrival in Israel. After his discharge he settled in Nahalat Yitzhak and worked in carpentry. When he began the War of Independence he enlisted and served in the Palmach’s 10th Brigade in the Haganah, where he participated in many battles with his battalion, and in June 1948 he participated in the Battle of the Radar Camp. Har Adar) in the Judean Hills, near the settlements of Ma’ale Hahamisha and Kiryat Anavim, and in April 1948, during the Operation Yevusi, Arab Legion soldiers inflicted heavy losses on the Harel fighters who had sought the help of their comrades in the Battle of Nabi Samwil. , In mid-May 1948, the camp was conquered by the fighters of the Brigade and its possession was given to the fighters of the Etzioni Brigade, but the Jordanian army captured it by return On May 26, 1948, when he attacked the camp with great force, aided by armor and artillery, and about twenty fighters from the brigade were killed, and on the night of May 27-26, 1948, “On the night of 24 Iyar 5708 (1.6.1948), another battle was held in an attempt to capture Mount Radar, but the battle failed, and more than ten fighters, including Mordechai, fell in front of the Jordanian fortifications and preferred weapons. He was twenty-four years old when he fell. The radar hill remained under the control of Jordan and at the end of the War of Independence began searching for the remnants of the fallen. Mordechai was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949). This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
