Nordman (Karger), Tzipora

Daughter of Frumet and Nehemiah, was born on 27.11.1923 in Lodz, Poland. She was educated in a Jewish-national education in her hometown and attended the Gymnasium. When the Nazis invaded the city, the entire family was imprisoned in the ghetto, and upon its liquidation it was sent to the death camps, and only Zippora and her sister survived. For years she was tortured in the Nazi forced labor camps until she was liberated by the Red Army and returned to her town. In Lodz she joined the “Bnei Akiva” branch, which was founded in those days and married Fishl Nordmann. With the “Bricha” they moved to Germany to the training farm in Eschenbach, where they stayed for two years. Because of her health, Zippora was granted a permit to immigrate to Israel and on 15 July 1947 she joined Kfar Etzion. Her husband set sail on the ship “Exodus” and was returned to Germany. Only at the end of Tevet 5708, when the Gush was already besieged, he arrived in Israel and arrived in the village, he met with his wife, and Zippora carried her suffering in silence until her husband returned to Israel, where she worked as a seamstress and learned Hebrew. When her husband returned, they hoped that they would have a Simcha life, but he fell ill and left the hospital very weakened, and during the last attacks on the village they were together in a shelter in the German monastery and on the outbreak of the legion of the Legion on May 13, 1948, Under the ruins of the monastery that was blown up by the enemy. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) she was brought to rest with the rest of the victims of the Gush in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.