Kolpak, Zvi (“Tzvika”)

Son of Yitzhak and Tzipora. He was born on the 4th of Iyar, 1940, in Russia, during the period of his being a baby, and during the Holocaust he was miraculously saved from hiding in a Christian family when he arrived at the age of six. And he entered one of his institutions and began to build his life for the future, and the knowledge that an elderly wife was looking for him came to him, and his mother, who was miraculously saved from the Holocaust and found no peace in her soul until she found her son in Israel, Zvika was drafted into the paratroop brigade, where, after his discharge from the IDF in February 1961, he enlisted in the police and went straight to the border guard. In the Border Guard he moved to the village of Warburg, where he was one of the daughters of the veteran families in which he took him to a wife, where he established a luxury farm with the help of her father and Zvi was very attached to him. He volunteered for the paratroopers and his comrades-in-arms and his commanders saw him as a paratrooper fighter and a loyal friend, but on the second day of the battles of the war, (June 6, 1967), fell in a battle held by the PIJ in Jerusalem, the capital. He left a wife and a daughter; His wife was pregnant and a three-week-old girl after the son fell was named after his father. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. His comrades-in-arms set up a monument to his memory in front of the PAGI buildings, where he fell (today Ramat Eshkol), and published a pamphlet in his memory on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death.