Lindheimer, Wilhelm (Ze’ev)

Son of Babette and Ali. He was born on December 2, 1914 in Breslau, in the German province of Silesia. As a child, he was far from Judaism and Zionism, but when he grew up he joined the Zionist movement and became addicted to it with all his might. He went to pioneering training kibbutzim in Germany and the Czech Republic, prepared himself for aliya and also worked to spread the Hebrew language and culture. In 1937 he immigrated to Eretz Israel where he worked in Binyamina and at the Salt Company factory in Shvilit. Among his acquaintances, he was known to have a broad general education and a proper, quiet and friendly manner. Soon he became absorbed in the country and became attached to its landscapes. During the Second World War he enlisted in the British Army’s British Expeditionary Force and in April 1941 he was captured by the Germans in Greece. At the end of the war he was liberated from a POW camp in Germany by a unit of the Allies. On 26 Iyar, May 9, 1945, on his way to a temporary prison camp in England, he died in an airplane accident over France. He was laid to rest at Clichy Cemetery in Paris. He left a wife. His name was immortalized in the book “The Volunteer Book” and in the “Journalists’ Book” of 1946.