Litvak, Gershon

Son of Zissel and Michael, was born on December 12, 1914 in the town of Slitsz-Zuta, in the Volhynia district of Poland. In 1939 he immigrated to Israel on the ship “Colorado”. His only sister survived the Nazis and fled to Russia. In Israel, he worked in the framework of the framework and in the leisure hours after work devoted himself to reading books and working in the trade union. Was a member of the Haganah from the day he arrived in Israel. With the UN General Assembly resolution of November 29, 1947, dividing the country into two states and the beginning of the War of Independence, he took his place in the ranks of the Golani Brigade and fought in the battles of the Beit She’an Valley, which invaded the Jordan Valley on May 16, 1948, On May 18, the Syrians launched an attack on a plant with the help of artillery and tanks, and our forces did not resist the intensity of the Syrian attack, first the town of Tzemah and finally the police station, and the defenders retreated under Syrian fire towards Degania, On the ninth of Iyar 5708 (18.5.1948). He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Degania Aleph,