Hoch, Yerachmiel (Raham)

Son of Rivka and Ziskind (Siegfried), was born on December 9, 1916, in Poland. As a child he went with his parents to the city of Essen, Germany, where he attended high school and joined the “Kadima” pioneering youth movement that created the Habonim movement. He was trained in Grzyn and was also a counselor and a representative of the Pioneers’ group, and fought to bring the group together, but succeeded only slightly. As a foreign national, he was expelled from Germany to Poland and from there immigrated to Israel in early 1939. He worked briefly at Beit Ha’Arava, moved to the company of his company in Ra’anana and settled with it in 1944 at Kibbutz Gilad. Yerachmiel played a vital role in the construction of the site and as a mechanic with a high professional level, he was in charge of the carpentry workshop of the kibbutz. He was active in all branches of life of the kibbutz, the living spirit in social meetings, and managed the singing and dancing in the evenings. He married a wife and the couple had a daughter, whom he had grown up to four and a half. On May 29, 1948, when he placed mines near the water pump, he was killed when a mine exploded. He was laid to rest in the cemetery at Even Yitzhak Gilad.