Rain, Isaac (Itzik)

Was born in 1929 in the village of Skarush, in the area of ​​Kosice, Czechoslovakia, where his grandfather and his parents, who worked as farmers, raised their children in the spirit of Jewish tradition, and learned in a general school that the village was too far from the city Where he was able to study at a Jewish school, and joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement, where he spent many hours with his friends, but he did many sports and above all loved to care for animals. The parents and a younger brother perished in the Auschwitz death camp, two sisters were murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and Itzik with another brother managed to survive. Where all the prisoners of the camps were sent to the approaching fronts, and among the survivors were the two brothers, but they fell ill with typhoid fever and were taken by a Catholic nun under her wing and treated them for a whole year until they recovered and gathered strength. To Eretz Israel on July 30, 1946, on the illegal immigrant ship “The Jewish Soldier.” Upon their arrival, they set out as part of a training program for Kibbutz Nir David. During that time he thoroughly studied the treatment of animals he loved so much and also dealt with carving wood. Itzik was a member of the Palmach, and with the outbreak of the War of Independence he left with his regiment, 7th Battalion of the 12th Brigade (Hativat Hanegev) to the besieged Negev, which consisted mostly of young people who had just arrived in Israel. The battalion was able to penetrate the enemy formation in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya, and the battalion’s assistance to the battalion was disrupted and in view of the enemy’s superiority and after a fierce battle was forced to retreat, and was hit by shrapnel and fell on the 12th of Tishrei, 5709 (October 15, The military cemetery in Rehovot.