Rotman, Isaac

Son of Yenta and Zvi (Hersch), born in November 1926 in the city of Radom, Poland to working parents, studied in a room and elementary school. During the Second World War, the family (the parents and five children) was imprisoned with all the Jews in the ghetto. The mother and four of the children were sent to Auschwitz for extermination. He and his father were sent to various labor camps. They experienced all the torments of hell and after the liberation met again and began to renew their lives in the DP camp in Stuttgart, southern Germany. With the help of relatives in America, they received certificates that enabled them to come to the United States. In the meantime, Yitzhak worked as a driver. When he heard that the Land of Israel was in danger, he gave up his trip to America and, with the help of a representative of the Haganah in Europe, joined the IDF. He said to his cousin: “In the years of annihilation I saw death thousands of times every day, and if I were killed, there was no point in my death … At least I know what I sacrifice for my life and my soul. And fell in honor during the “Yoav” operation to break through the Negev, while collecting the wounded during a retreat in the attack on Iraq Al-Manshiyya on the 16th of Tishrei, 5709 (October 16, 1948). He was buried in the winepress. On the 29th of Tishrei 5710 (29.9.1949) he was put to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.