Litvak, Michael

Michael, son of Yenta and Mordecai Litvak, was born in 1912 in Poland. At the outbreak of World War II, in 1939, he reached the Hashomer Hatzair concentration camp in Vilna in the hope of emigrating to Israel, but it was not to be. He was transferred to Russia, where he went through many years of suffering. In the summer of 1947, he immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Tel Amal in the Beit She’an Valley. He was among the first recruits of his kibbutz and joined the War of Independence, serving in the Golani brigade as a battalion medic. Michael fell in battle at the foot of the Gilboa Mountains on th 25th of Tammuz (1.8.1948) and was brought to rest in the cemetery at Tel Amal. He left behing his wife and child.