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Rosenfeld, Tzipora (Pele)

Rosenfeld, Tzipora (Pele)


Daughter of Gila and Mordechai, was born on April 1, 1928 in Lodz, Poland. Where she attended elementary school and excelled in her studies. When World War II broke out, she was about 11 years old, sent by her parents to Radomsk, and from there she was taken at the end of 1942 to a German labor camp in Skarzysko. In this camp she met with a Zionist youth group and was attracted to the idea of ​​immigrating to Israel. There she met Yehiel Rosenfeld, who married him immediately after liberation from the camp. Only her sister survived from her family, but their ways separated. Zippora headed for Aliyah, while her sister remained in Poland and their connections were loosened. In the Bnei Akiva movement, which was reorganized in Lodz, Zippora worked with children who survived the Holocaust and with them, on her way to Germany, with her husband, after studying for two years in a Polish government gymnasium to complete what she had missed in her studies. She immigrated to Israel in the spring of 1946 and joined Kfar Etzion in 1947. Her father was born in Cyprus, where she was exiled with the immigrants of the Latrun. In the spring of 1947, her husband was released and arrived in Israel, and the family began to build their home in Kfar Etzion, but the days of the war broke out, and when the women and children were evacuated, their youngest son was sent to Jerusalem. My mother also gave birth to foreign hands while I was a young girl. “The mother’s Lev was filled with longing for her soft son, and when she finally decided to go to Jerusalem, the road was already cut off. Zippora fell on Wednesday, May 13, 1948, together with her husband, when the enemy’s armored vehicles burst into the village. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) she was transferred to eternal rest with the rest of the victims of the Gush to the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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