Sobelman, Dov (Berla)
Son of Shprintza and Aryeh, was born in 1930 in the village of Holszow, Poland. When he was nine months old, he was orphaned from his mother. When he was 10 years old, Poland was occupied by the Germans and he was forced to wander in order to save his life from the Nazis. On his way he joined the partisans in the Polish forests and soon became very fond of them and became their teacher through the forests of the surrounding area, where he was born and raised. For about five years he lived among the partisans. After World War he joined the “Nocham” pioneering youth movement. Dov immigrated to Israel through Italy. The ship was captured by the British and its passengers were deported by the British Mandate authorities to Cyprus. A year later, on April 6, 1948, he immigrated to Israel under an assumed name and immediately, despite his young age, enlisted and went directly from the immigrant home in Netanya to escort convoys from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Dov served in the Negev Brigade and participated in the “Yoav” operation to break through the Negev. His battalion attacked the Egyptian alignment in Iraq, but was forced to withdraw due to heavy resistance from the enemy. In this battle he fell, on the 16th of Tishrei, 16 October 1948, and was brought to rest at the military cemetery in the village of Warburg. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
