Roddick, Aaron (Arnold)
The only son of Dora and Hermann was born in 1929 in Romania. With the outbreak of World War II he was still a schoolboy. With his family he was exiled from his home and imprisoned in the ghetto in Transnistria. One day before the extermination of the prisoners he managed to escape, and sneaked across the border into Romania. Aharon completed his education in a commercial gymnasium and was very active in the Zionist youth underground. He joined the Habonim (illegal) training and immigrated to Israel in 1946 on the illegal immigrant ship Haganah. At first he was a member of Maoz Haim. With the worsening of the security situation in Israel following the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of the country into two states and the outbreak of the War of Independence following it, he joined the service of the Notaries, his slogan was “Every Jew must know how to work in Turya and hold a rifle.” On Sunday, On December 14, 1947, a seven-car convoy of 48 reinforcements from Son of Shemen left Petah Tikva. Surprisingly, the convoy traveled not in the usual way, but through Migdal Tzedek and Beit-Nabala. The convoy managed to advance despite fire from several places and despite the breakdown of vehicles. When she arrived at the army camps in Beit Nabala, heavy fire was fired at her by a unit of the Arab Legion that was there. In this battle fell. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva. In the pamphlet “How Heroes Fell” a page was dedicated to his memory
