Shtemer, Mordechai (Moti, Marcus)

Son of Sarah and Meir, was born on 18.4.1927 in the city of Ludwigshafen, Germany. He began his elementary school at the time of the Nazis’ rise and establishment. In 1938, at the age of 11, the family was deported to Poland, but in December of that year Mordechai was transferred with a group of refugee children to England and placed in a children’s institution near London. His older brothers came straight to Israel. He was educated abroad, but grew up to become a Zionist and a Hebrew. During the “Blitz” of London during World War II, the children of the Mossad were transferred to a safe haven in the city of Wittingham, Scotland. Where he was trained for two years, returned to London, completed a special seminar for youth counselors and moved to a training camp near Edinburgh, as a guide for the Poalei Zion movement. At the age of 20 he decided to acquire a profession and came back to London to study watchmaking. During his academic year, he organized a cultural group within the framework of Maccabi, mainly for the purpose of imparting the Hebrew language to the students, and spent the rest of his time devoted to sports. Mordechai belonged to a football team of Maccabi in London. At the beginning of the War of Independence he volunteered for the IDF as a soldier from abroad. He underwent basic training in France and in July 1948 came to Israel and was assigned to the Jerusalem Brigade. On October 5, 1948, he was seriously injured in Arnona and transferred to a military hospital in Jerusalem, where he died of his wounds on October 13, 1948. He was buried in Sheik-Bader Aleph on August 30, 1950 ) Was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.