Kurztag, Zipora (Pele)

Daughter of-Tovah was born on April 5, 1922 in Sosnowiec, Poland, and at the age of 10 she overcame the opposition of her Hasidic parents and teachers at the Polish school for Jews and joined the religious Hashomer-Bnei Akiva movement. And her father was one of the first Jewish murdered in the city and continued her underground activities until her mother and brother were taken to an extermination camp, Her sister to a labor camp in an unknown place, and she was taken to a labor camp in Ludwigsdorf, in the ghetto and in the Aid camp After her victory over the Germans and the annihilation of the enemy, she returned to Sosnowiec in June 1945 and tried to reorganize the remains she had found for a pioneering kibbutz, and found her sister, who was considered lost, and joined her in the “Negev” kibbutz in Gliwice. The “Bricha route” to Germany, and served in the warehouse, the kitchen, and the clothing store of Kibbutz “Negev” and in the public life of the Jewish camp in Fockenig, Bavaria. In June 1947 both were released and immigrated to Israel. Zippora joined Kfar Etzion and called the place and the company. In the winter of 1948, with the outbreak of the War of Independence, she participated in training and guarding and served in a first aid class, and during the last attack with the first aid companies in the shelter under the German convent building, and when enemy armor broke into the village, , Blew him up all his inhabitants, who were buried under his ruins, and she among them, on Wednesday, 13.5.1948. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5706 (17.11.1949) she was brought to rest with the rest of the victims of the Gush, at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.