Rosenfeld, Zalman (Sigmund)

Zalman Rosenfeld, son of Ida and Feivish, was born in 1920 in Poland. On August 15, 1947, after being released from detention in Cyprus, he arrived in Haifa and was referred by the National Institutions to the Rishon Lezion Workers’ Council. He lived in immigrant residences in the moshava and was employed as a foreman at one of the local orchards. In November 1947, Zalman met briefly with two of his cousins ​​- Yisrael Stovitzky and Hirsch-Leib Rosenfeld – who survived the Holocaust, but were later cut off from contact with relatives. At the beginning of July 1948 – during the first truce in the War of Independence – Zalman was recruited along with about four hundred other citizens, residents of the region’s colonies, for fortifications on the southern front. Zalman and his comrades worked under the command of the 53rd Battalion of the Givati ​​Brigade, which operated in the area. According to existing information, Zalman Rosenfeld was recruited to the fortifications and killed by Egyptian gunfire in Beit Daras on July 8, 1948. Zalman was apparently buried in Beer Tuvia.