Rotfeld, Dr. Yosef

Born on April 21, 1912, in Rozenitow, Galicia, as the eldest son of his parents. The family moved to Vienna, where he completed his elementary and high school studies with distinction, and was especially interested in human subjects in Freud’s languages ​​and writings. He was an avid young man, a diligent friend, a diligent and gifted painter, and in his youth he was enthusiastic about the Zionist idea. At the age of fifteen he was one of the heads of the Zionist Students’ Association in Vienna’s high school. Yosef studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and in 1936 he received a doctorate in medicine, and for more than a year he worked in various hospitals In 1937, he was in charge of cultural activities at Hechalutz, and in 1938 the Histadrut agreed to give up his contribution and allow him to immigrate to Eretz Israel, settling in Ein Gev, working as a doctor. On 29 Tamuz, July 16, 1939, Yosef and his good friend Ephraim Orenstein were shot in the ambush when he and a group of friends from Ein-Gav were measuring land. He was laid to rest in his kibbutz Ein Gev. He left parents and a sister. His name was immortalized in a memory booklet issued by the Ein Gev group.