Reiner, Yitzhak (Shvartzer)

Son of Shoshana and Dov, was born in 1930 in the city of Stanislawow in eastern Galicia and attended elementary school until the outbreak of World War II. When the Nazis invaded the ghetto and his mother found her dead, he took his life in his hand and jumped from the third floor of one of the houses and fell in a broken leg outside the ghetto and crawled to the home of a Ukrainian peasant who gave him shelter. After he recovered he joined the partisans and helped the Soviet Army. After the war he left with his father, who survived the “escape route” and in June 1946 they arrived in Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. Yitzhak worked in carpentry and in politics. The British campaign of oppression on the “Black Sabbath” (29.6.1946), which began shortly after Yitzhak came to Israel, reminded him too much of the ghetto. He later became a member of the Irgun underground and was fond of his friends because of his willingness to help needy people with his meager pennies, and because of his dark skin they called him the “Schwarzer.” Yitzhak was arrested while affixing proclamations and released on the bail of his father, He also participated in several anti-British operations in the winter of 1948 – in defending Tel Aviv and in retaliating against the Arab rioters. In the battle of Ramla, he excelled bravely and bravely, and once he even burst into the “Bren” with the Arab encirclement ring on his unit, and in the last battle he fought against waves of Arab attack. Who was stabbed in the back and fell on the 24th of Iyar 5708 (June 2, 1948) and was brought to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.