Plonski, Mordechai (Motke)
Son of Betty and Isidore, was born on November 8, 1962, in Berlin, the capital of Germany. He attended a Jewish high school and joined Maccabi Hatzair in his youth. In 1938 he immigrated to Israel as part of the Youth Aliya (the parents and his older brother remained in Germany without a permit to leave), and he trained in shifts and in Hulda, where he joined the British army and served as a parachutist in Greece and Yugoslavia, Italy (landing at Anzio) When he learned that his mother had survived (his father and brother had murdered the Nazis) and was in Berlin, he obtained a permit to move there as a soldier and live in her home. He joined the Haganah as an active member of the Haganah and joined the IDF at the beginning of the War of Independence Barak in the Golani Brigade. Mordechai participated in the raid on Ein Mahal, in the conquest of the Arab Sejera and in the breakthrough to the Tzemach police. He was transferred from the Jordan Valley to the Negev, to the jeep unit, and during the first truce he returned to his battalion, Barak, and organized a commando unit, and the latter was commander of a commando unit. And in the final victory Mordecai fell during the attack of the enemy in the western outpost of Sejera on the 3rd of Tammuz 5708 (10.7.1948) and was buried in Menahemiah. After his death, his mother was given a letter of will, which he entrusted to one of his friends, requesting her forgiveness for having risked his life, and explaining to her: “I could not otherwise …” On the 29th of Tishrei, 5710 (29.10.1951), he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in the village of Warburg.
