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Rosenbaum, Yosef (Yoshko)

Rosenbaum, Yosef (Yoshko)

Son of Gizela and Mordechai, was born on October 30, 1925 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, to a family of poor workers. After graduating from elementary school, he studied bookkeeping and worked in its sandwiches. When the Fascist regime in Hungary was sent to forced labor in a copper mine in Serbia. After his discharge he returned to work in his profession. After a short time he joined the Dror-Habonim youth movement and went to the hachshara. He arrived at the seashore in the “Bericha” route, boarded the Haganah and arrived in Eretz Israel in August 1946. Yosef joined his group in Kibbutz Givat Haim and was soon absorbed in the agricultural work and in society. During the War of Independence he served in the Alexandroni Brigade, guarding the Emek Hefer area and rarely visited his wife and friends. When he was sent with his unit on July 7, 1948, as a reinforcement to the garrison in Kfar Kakon, to face an expected counterattack, he also brought clothes to the other members of the farm there, and before noon he was killed by a direct shell. – They live in the Givat Haim cemetery.

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