Yitzhak, the son of Chana and Shmuel, was born on June 10, 1931 in Poland, in the town of Kapicnik in the Ternopol region, in eastern Galicia (now Ukraine). He was educated in his city and was an active member of the local Dror movement. Until World War I, the Ternopol district was included in Galicia under Austrian rule, and between the two world wars was controlled by independent Poland. Jews have lived in the area since its founding, and for a long time constituted a majority among the residents. On the eve of World War II, when the area was annexed to the Soviet Union under the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement, there were about 20,000 Jews living there. With the arrival of the Nazi occupation in 1941, only a few members of the district succeeded in escaping to the east. Kapicnik was captured by the Germans on July 7, 1941, and the Jews were immediately subjected to decrees and restrictions. Their property was confiscated and hundreds were kidnapped for forced labor. At the end of September 1942, a thousand Jews were deported to the Belzec death camp, and in October refugees who arrived in the area were brought in. In an Aktion in June 1943, 4,000 Jews were rounded up and murdered in a nearby forest. The Kapicnik community, and the entire Ternopol community, were liquidated in the summer of 1943 in the Belzec extermination camp. The entire family of Yitzhak was exterminated in the Holocaust, only he himself moved from camp to camp and was saved. At the end of the war, Yitzhak was in the children’s home of Lena Kuechler in Zakopane, Poland. Lena Kuechler later wrote the book “My Hundred Children,” in which she described the history of the children’s home she had run, and Yitzhak was also mentioned. In this house, Yitzhak met Nahum Bogner and the two, who were born in the same environment in which they survived as orphans without a close soul, became friends in Lev and soul. Nahum related about Yitzhak: “He was a solid, dark-skinned boy with a round face and dark eyes, with a black hairstyle, always well-groomed, with something of the gypsy beauty, he was not one of the raging boys and the carpenters, He was the most sober of the group, critical, independent of his opinions and of my own, and in face-to-face conversations he used to choose his words, and he instinctively aroused his first acquaintance with him. It was clear to Yitzhak that he had nothing more to look for in the districts where he had lost all his loved ones, and that he had to strive in all ways to reach Eretz Yisrael and live among Jews. This recognition led him and his friend to leave the children’s boarding school in Zakopane and to join a “children’s kibbutz” of the Dror youth movement, Kibbutz Shark, which began to organize in Bytom, in Silesia. Indeed, they soon set out on the illegal route of the “Irgun Ha – Bricha” and the illegal immigration to Eretz Israel. They stayed for a year in DP camps in Germany, and on April 1, 1947, they left France for Palestine as part of the Youth Aliya on the illegal immigrant ship Theodor Herzl, organized by the Haganah’s Mossad Le’Aliya Bet. The ship sailed from France with about 2,600 immigrants, but after two weeks of sailing it was intercepted by the British Navy destroyers. The British sailors stormed the ship and tried to take over the ship, and between them and the Ma’apilim a violent confrontation broke out, during which three of the immigrants were killed and twenty wounded. The ship was towed to the port of Haifa, from where the illegal immigrants were taken to the detention camps on Cyprus for illegal immigrants to Palestine. The wounded and the sick among them were arrested in the Atlit detention camp. Yitzhak was in the deportation camp in Cyprus for more than six months. On December 22, 1947, he arrived in Israel and was absorbed with his group in a youth group in Kibbutz Hulata in the Upper Galilee. Kibbutz Hulata was then a school settlement that, from the beginning of the War of Independence, was forced to defend itself against Arab attacks. The youth was a significant reinforcement to the agriculture: the boys quickly integrated into the farm and the settlement, and they had very little time left to study. Immediately after they were housed inBarracks made them aware of the array of positions around the agriculture, and after a brief training in the operation of weapons, they were combined on guard during the cold winter nights. Yitzhak became part of the field of agriculture, learned to operate all the agricultural machines that were then in Hulata and was very proud of it. As a lonely young man, he was aware that in order to integrate into the country, he had to learn Hebrew and acquire a profession, and being a skilled tractor was then the peak of the dream. His friend remembers: “We are finally living in a country that will be based largely on agriculture.” Because of the heavy workload, he retired from school, but nevertheless acquired excellent Hebrew and quickly became involved in the Israeli experience. Yitzhak loved her illness and the kibbutz members loved him. He even considered joining a kibbutz and building his home, but when he was a member of a mobilized mission, he accepted the request of the Hakibbutz Hameuchad secretariat and went out to reinforce the agriculture in a more difficult situation. In September 1949, after the training of the youth group in Hulata, he joined with another group of youths to the Hokuk farm in the Lower Galilee, north of Tiberias. In the new agriculture, he continued to work energetically, and in his work as a tractor engineer, he stood out for his sense of responsibility and his precision. He wrote: “Hokuk is situated in the mountains near Ginosar, and from here you can see the entire Sea of Galilee, and in the evening you can see the lights of Ein Gev and Tiberias. For four years nothing has been built here. There was a “fortress” built by the Jewish Agency. Now more buildings and barracks are being built. There was a terrible shortage of working hands. When we arrived, the situation was somewhat relieved. On Sunday I got a tractor for work. The roads here are very bad. I do not want to work in the field and try to get into the leadership. From the first day he arrived at Yokok, Yitzhak began to work in the field of land preparation, first picking up rocks in the fields of the farm, exhausting and gray work, and then sending him to work as a bulldozer operator in Tantura and Havelock. Where he worked long days until the end of the forces, he worked for many days and accumulated “Saturdays,” but as a responsible and conscientious man, he did not allow himself to take a break from his accumulated Shabbat pool. “I wrote in the apology letter:” I have to go back to work because every day I do not work A chunk of 25-30 pounds, and the agriculture is now in a severe financial situation. “Yitzhak was left in the kibbutz, one of the last of his group, and was in a personal crisis. As far as his private life and hardships concerned him, he was very closed and was not inclined to share them with anyone other than his closest friends: his inner strength began to crack, and he was only a nineteen-year-old at the time. He was offered to enlist in the Nahal Brigade, which meant replacing Hokok with military service in one of the kibbutzim in the south, but Yitzhak preferred to do regular military service. At first he was stationed at a training base, later served in a heavy equipment company and from there, in mid-November 1950, was transferred to a brigade field company. On the few days of freedom he received from the army, he would come to the distant legislation, and as an obvious thing he would get on the tractor and go to work. One of the most complex and dangerous tasks of the engineering corps was the dismantling of minefields laid during the War of Independence, sometimes without precise marking. Many mines were placed in the area of Faluja (now the Flugat Junction), where thousands of Egyptian soldiers were captured and harassedIn the area, during the dismantling of a minefield, Yitzhak was killed on July 15, 1951. He was twenty years old when he fell, and Yitzhak was brought to rest in the cemetery of Kibbutz Hokuk. The last “Netzer” victims are survivors of the Holocaust who remained the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters), who personally experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or the concentration and extermination camps and / Or in flight and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / or fighting alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, Sea and landed in Israel.
