Leizer, Eliezer (Fritz)

Son of Hilda and Albert. He was born in 1923 in the town of Bruxenstel, Germany. An only child of an assimilated Jewish family. In his youth he lived and studied among German boys in a German government school. There, as his friend testified, “he acquired the love and understanding of European culture, order and methodality in the life of a rich, cultured people, who have lived on the land and his independence ever since.” The friend also testified that Eliezer had a perception and an enjoyable laugh, qualities he liked about his friends. After Hitler’s rise to power in early 1933, Eliezer joined the ranks of Hechalutz and went to places of training where he first learned the work of paving and then acquired agricultural work experience prior to his immigration to Palestine. On April 16, 1936, a few days before the outbreak of the 1936 riots, Eliezer immigrated to Israel, where he immediately joined the “Ha-Kovesh” Company in Kfar Sava, where he described his life at the time: “Hard work in the orchard. After work – a narrow room in a shaky hut …” But Eliezer did not give up. Always happy, he learned Hebrew vigorously. On 30 Sivan, June 20, 1936, less than two and a half months after immigrating to Israel, while at one of Kfar Saba’s defense posts, he was mistakenly shot in the citrus groves. He was laid to rest in the old cemetery in Kfar Saba. He left parents who immigrated to Israel shortly after his fall and settled in his kibbutz. In his memory were written in the memory booklet for the fallen of Kfar Sava and in a memorial booklet published by his friends from Ramat Hakovesh.