Stern, Zvi-Herman

Son of Frida and Hugo Hertz, was born in 1908 in Germany. He grew up in an affluent home and graduated from high school. When the Nazis took control of Germany, Zvi immigrated to Israel in 1935. He worked as a laborer in the moshava. In 1937 he married a wife. At the beginning of World War II he volunteered for the British Army and served there until the end of the war. He returned to Israel in 1946, settled in Ra’anana and began to work. During the War of Independence he joined the Haganah and served in the Alexandroni Brigade, and fell in battle in Arab Kfar Saba on August 11, 1948. He left behind a wife, Rachel. A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.