Lopovich (Confino), Esther (Stela)
The only daughter of Golda and Shmuel was born on the 2nd of February 1929 in Bucharest, Romania. She was educated in the “Haratzon” Jewish school, studied Hebrew and readily accepted the national education. After completing seventh grade she began to study sewing and continued to work in a Zionist youth organization. When the pro-Nazi regime in Romania banned the Zionist activity, with the consent of her parents, she brought her members to her home despite the danger. Esther fought hard to be placed on the first convoy of Youth Aliyah, and succeeded in immigrating to Israel in October 1944. She completed her education in Tel Yitzhak and then worked for two years there and married David. In a letter to her parents, who were at a transit camp for immigrants in Vienna the day after the UN General Assembly decided on 29 November 1947 to establish a Jewish state, she informed them that there would soon be free immigration to Palestine, and that it was allowed to fight for the freedom of the homeland. Esther fulfilled her duty with enthusiasm and devotion until she was killed in a plane that was shot down over Lod on the 30th of Sivan, July 7, 1948. She was brought to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.
