Homberg, Yechiel (Kurt)

Son of Beata and Yehuda. He was born on January 28, 1917 in Assen, Germany, where he studied in his hometown and played football, and in 1936 immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he was a member of Givat HaShlosha. He joined the Marxist youth movement in 1937. In 1937, he traveled to a family in the Netherlands for a short period, and when he returned he became connected to the Haganah. On 15 Sivan, 2.6.1939 he went out with a patrol to check the railroad tracks from Rosh Ha’ayin in the direction of Qalqiliya, and near the Arab village of Jaljulya the patrol was attacked by an Arab gang. The members of the patrol, including four English soldiers and three Jewish guards – Israel Shulman, Assaf Binyamini and Yechiel – were shot and killed, Yechiel was laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv.