Gutterman, Menachem
Son of Sarah and Moshe, was born in 1931 in Lodz, Poland. He began to attend elementary school, and when he was in third grade, World War II broke out. While in the Lodz Ghetto, he studied on his own and acquired an education from the end of the elementary school. In 1943 he was taken to a concentration camp and released in 1945. He immediately left on the escape route to immigrate to Israel. He arrived in Italy and was accepted into a Jewish youth institution. Where he trained himself for aliyah and studied carpentry. Immigrated to Israel in 1946 as part of Youth Aliyah and was a member of a youth group in Kibbutz Alonim. When the fighting ended, the Yiftah Brigade was taken down to the central region and took part in the fighting in the Latrun area, and as the fighting resumed, the brigade participated in Operation Danny and at night On July 17-18, 1948, before the start of the second truce, the “Haemek” Battalion seized Shilat and took control of the eastern part of the Korikor ridge in order to threaten the wing of the legion in Latrun. The force in the outpost from two directions with the aid of armored vehicles, and this was forced to retreat, and the difficult retreat in an open area under crossfire fell Sea fighters. Menahem fell in the eleventh day of Tammuz Independence (18/07/1948). On the Declaration of Adar Alef (02/28/1950) was laid-rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem
