Rosenthal, Walter (Ze’ev)

Son of Matta and Hermann. He was born on May 19, 1913 in Rogozan, Poland. With the outbreak of the First World War, his father was drafted into battle and after the war he remained in Germany and the family joined him. Walter graduated from elementary school, but when he was fifteen he had to go out to work and help support the family. When he was eighteen, he joined the Blau Weiss youth movement and a year later went to pioneering training. In 1933 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and was sent to Ayelet Hashachar, but since he wanted to return money for the journey, he moved to Hadera and then to Tel Aviv where he actually worked. In 1934, eight months after his immigration, he met friends from the training group at Givat Hashlosha and decided to join them. In Giv’at Hashlosha, he worked in various fields: at the Migdal Tzedek quarries, in the Jaffa port and in the Tel Aviv port, and for many weeks he went to work in orchards every day: in digs, porteries and picking. For a while he also worked with a kibbutz company in Sodom who worked in difficult conditions. After the outbreak of the 1936 riots, when the gangs and the local Arabs grew up against Ramat Hakovesh and the nearby moshavim, Walter was enlisted for help in guarding and stationed at the most extreme point of the agriculture, and on the 23rd of Tammuz, The three were escorted to his wife and daughter and joined by a large gang of Arabs hiding behind an orchard fence, and Walter and his two other friends were killed in the first firing range. In 1975 he was transferred to the cemetery in Petach Tikvah, and his friends published a pamphlet in his memory and in memory of Shani Friends who fell with him – Anshel Stargrtr and Daniel Levin. Also immortalized in the book “degree days”.