Roitrand, Dov

Dov was born in Poland in 1925. He grew up in Cracow, the third largest city in the state, and on the eve of the Second World War 50,000 Jews lived in Kraków.The city was occupied by the Germans on September 6, 1939, and immediately thereafter was declared the capital of the Generalgouvernement The Jews were subjected to many abuses, their property was stolen, synagogues were set on fire and their basic rights were taken away.In May 1940, the Jews of Krakow began to be deported to surrounding towns, and by March 1941 about 40,000 Jews were deported. The Jews of the city and refugees from the surrounding area, and in June 1942 the deportations to the death camps began, and thousands of the ghetto’s Jews were deported to the Belzec death camp They lived in gas chambers until the end of the war, and almost all the Jews of Cracow were murdered: Dov and his family were among the residents of the ghetto, where Dov was forced to observe with his own eyes the murder of all his family members. After the war, Dov lived for a while in Poland and at the beginning of 1948 immigrated to Israel. His group was attached to Kibbutz Ein Gev in the eastern part of the Sea of ​​Galilee. Shortly after his arrival, during the War of Independence, Dov enlisted. Being an orphan and alone in the country, he could have been accepted into a non-combat unit, but he refused and volunteered for the Givati ​​Brigade, the 5th Brigade in the Haganah. He served in Battalion 52, whose fighters participated in all the brigade’s battlefields. On April 22, 1948, Dov went on a mine in the area of ​​the Arab village of al-Brie, north of Latrun, during the cleansing of the village. He was critically wounded and taken to a hospital, but two months later, on the 15th of Sivan 5708 (June 22, 1948), he died of his wounds. He was twenty-three when he fell. Dov was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Rehovot. Space is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration and extermination camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army