Plotka, Siegfried (“Siggy”)

Son of Shmuel and Martha. He was born on July 15, 1917 in Hamburg, Germany. He completed ten classes at the Talmud Torah school in his hometown. He then worked at a shipyard in Hamburg and studied mechanics at evening classes at a vocational school. He belonged to the Habonim and He – Chaluts movements there. A year before immigrating to Israel (1938), he was in an agricultural training program in Sweden. After his cost he was a member of the “Habarut” group in the Borochov neighborhood for four years. Immediately joined the Hagana and during the War of Independence he enlisted in active service (May 1948) until the end of the war served in the medical corps. In the course of his duty in the reserves at Mount Zion on Rosh Chodesh of Tamuz 5714 (2.7.1954), he fell and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, leaving a wife, son and daughter.