Sternberg, Reuven (Robert)

Son of Mordechai. After the First World War and the generalization of the independent city of Poland, Robert and his brother ran the ceramics factory that they inherited from their father who had died, and this factory they planned to move to Palestine but did not have time to do so. In 1939, after the German invasion of western Poland and the Soviet invasion of the eastern part of the country, Robert fled with one of his brothers and mother to Lvov, which was in the hands of the Russians, and a year later they were deported together with hundreds of thousands of Jews to Siberia. He traveled to Iran and Iraq, and from there he came to Palestine in November 1943. He enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the Israeli infantry. On 30 Sivan, June 11, 1945, Robert drowned in the beach in Tel Aviv. He was buried in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery. He left a mother, two brothers and a sister. A list in his memory was published in the newspaper “Davar”.