Nordmann, Fischel

Son of Sara and Yehoshua, was born in 1914 in the city of Piotrkow-Tribunalski, Poland, to a Hasidic family living in Lodz. Fishel received a religious education and from his youth was an active member of Hashomer Hadati. In 1933 he spent two years in the hachshara and returned to his town to prepare for immigration, but this was delayed and he was forced to serve for a year and a half in the Polish army. During the Second World War, he was imprisoned in the Lodz ghetto and later sent to various labor camps, including Dachau and Auschwitz, and was often a crime between him and death. Upon liberation he returned to his town and found no one else from his family alive. With his friends he founded the “Torah V’Avodah” branch in Lodz, where he met Zippora Karger and married her. From Lodz he moved to Germany. He spent two years on an agricultural farm in Essenbach until his wife immigrated to Israel on an immigration permit she received because of her health, and he and his friends set out on the ship Exodus 1947, after returning to Germany together with all the passengers, Tevet 5708 with an immigration permit under another name. When he arrived in Israel, he visited his relatives and immediately felt one of the convoys to Kfar Etzion, the siege on which had already been tightened. In the village he met his wife again, and quickly settled in the life of the group, taking part in training and guarding and fortifications. In his letters to his relatives he expressed great satisfaction that he had been given the burden of defense. During the War of Independence, during the War of Independence, he fell ill and when the great attack on the farm came with his wife in the shelter of the German convent, the house was bombed and all its inhabitants were buried under its ruins. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949), he was transferred to eternal rest with the rest of the victims of Gush Etzion at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.