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Roth, Isaac (Ladislo)

Roth, Isaac (Ladislo)


Son of Tarasia and Yosef, was born on April 11, 1926 in the town of Otegg, Slovakia. He received a traditional Jewish education in the room and also attended a general school. He was a cheerful boy of strong character. He was a member of the Gordonia and Maccabi HaZair movements, from which he drew his first knowledge of Eretz Israel and the Zionist movement. In 1938, when the Hungarians occupied his area, the situation of the Jews deteriorated and his wealthy family was deprived of their source of income. Yitzhak then moved to Budapest and worked there as a laborer in heavy industry, and he was only 12 at the time. As a teenager, he joined the Socialist Party and worked there until the Germans entered the city in 1942. He was then arrested, taken to the Auschwitz death camp, and later sent to various slave labor in Silesia. At the end of the Second World War, he was released weak and weak and made his way from Silesia to Slovakia. In his home he found his brother, the only survivor of the entire family, and with him moved to Budapest. Where he was admitted to a hospital, slowly recovered and joined pioneering training. From there he moved to Romania and in 1946 immigrated with his girlfriend on the ship “Max Nordau”. He arrived in Israel on May 14, 1946. Yitzhak underwent training in Kfar Maccabee, worked in agricultural work in Nahalal, and as a member of Solel Boneh, in the construction of Youth Aliyah institutions in Alonim. Afterward he settled in Kiryat Amal, where he wanted to build his home, but in the meantime the War of Independence broke out. Yitzhak joined his wife in the army and was assigned to one of the battalions in the Golani brigade. Bread in the Lower Galilee. The village of Lubia was one of the most important enemy strongholds in the Lower Galilee that blocked the road to Tiberias and could serve as a springboard for an attack in the direction of Afula. On June 9, Golani forces attacked the village from the direction of Sajara, and another force, in armored vehicles, moved along the road from Tiberias. The attacking force encountered fierce resistance from the enemy, who even sent reinforcements to the area. The battle was fought until nightfall and finally the forces had to retreat. In this battle he fell on the second day of Sivan 5708 (June 9, 1948.) He was brought to rest in the cemetery in Mishmar Ha’emek.

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