Jacobson, Hugo-Zvi

Son of Esther and Baruch. He was born on October 12, 1916 in Breslau, Germany, to a traditional family. Already in his youth, he was attracted to sports. He became a member of Maccabi Hatzair and devoted himself mainly to soccer. For three and a half years he learned the baking profession. In 1935 he immigrated to Eretz Israel. He joined the “Rodges” company in Israel and in 1937 was among the founders of Kibbutz Tirat Zvi in ​​the Beit Shean Valley. From 1938 to 1941 he served as a guard. In April 1941 he volunteered for the British Army. His brother, Chaim, from Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, also joined the army. He served in Egypt, Libya, Belgium, France and the Netherlands, and in the end was transferred to Italy where he stepped on a mine on April 25, 1945, and his leg was amputated. In the military hospital in Be’er Yaakov, a prosthesis was installed, but it was hard for him to adjust to it. He moved to his sister’s house, where he lived in conditions of severe overcrowding with her family and his parents. He was accepted to work in a plaster factory, and claimed that “the wooden leg does not get tired or painful at all.” He spent his free hours listening to music and reading books. On 10 Nisan, March 31, 1947, he died of shrapnel that penetrated his heart and was laid to rest in Haifa. He left his parents, a brother and two sisters.