Rosenberg, Mordechai (Maxi)

Son of Ama and Manfred (Israel), was born on 19 July 1935 in Breslau, Germany. His father was an active Zionist and a member of the Social Democratic Party in Germany. In 1939 his father was arrested, sent to a concentration camp and perished in Auschwitz. After the father was arrested, the family moved to Berlin. When the Second World War broke out, German peasants gave him shelter. In 1949, when he was 13 years old, Mordechai immigrated to Israel. He was educated as part of the “Youth Aliyah” in Kibbutz Evron, in the Western Galilee. In September 1951 he joined the Nahal Lapid group and went to Kibbutz Hahotrim near Haifa until he joined the IDF in February 1952. Mordechai underwent a paramedic course, and during his entire service served as a medic. After completing his army service, Mordechai returned to Kibbutz Hahotrim, joined agricultural work and was popular with his friends in the kibbutz. In 1958 he married, and his son Ofer was born. Over time, his mother and sister, who survived the Holocaust, immigrated to Israel. In 1962, the family moved from the kibbutz to Kiryat Gat, where Mordechai found his livelihood as a maintenance officer in the bakery. In 1972 his daughter Dganit was born. He was devoted to his wife, a model father, loved his family and devoted much of his time to cultivating his home. On 25 Cheshvan, November 11, 1982, as a result of the explosion of a gas canister in the military government building, the building collapsed and buried its inhabitants, among them Mordechai. He was 47 years old and was buried in the cemetery on his kibbutz, Merom Golan in the Golan Heights. Mordechai left behind a wife, son, daughter, mother and sister.