Sternberg, Zvi

Son of Chava and Dov, was born on 13.11.1913 in the city of Dubno, in Volhynia, which was then part of Tsarist Russia. He began studying Russian from a private teacher and from the age of 10 he attended a Polish school. He excelled in playfulness and humor and in school, especially in mathematics. When he was 15, he joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, began studying Hebrew and served as secretary of the nest. When he was 16, he began to study electricity. For about two years, he led a youth battalion and was the secretary of the local Hechalutz. In 1933 he went on to train in Chelm and Lublin and held positions in the secretaries and treasurers. Was one of the best workers in hard labor and was forced to stop his activity for six months, weakened by hard work and poor nutrition. Zvi participated in a training course for defense, conducted by emissaries from Israel, excelled in it and guided the members of his kibbutz. Shortly after his marriage he immigrated to Israel in April 1938, in the first convoy of Aliya Bet, which began to organize on behalf of the Histadrut, and a year later his wife also came. When he arrived, he joined a kibbutz of his movement in Netanya, worked in citrus orchards, served as a counselor in the Haganah and served for four years with honors. In the temporary farm of the kibbutz in Netanya, he excelled in maintaining order, and there his son was born. In 1943 he moved with the Rishonim to the kibbutz settlement in the Gaza Plain (Mizpe Hayam and later Yad Mordechai). Zvi was responsible for the position of corporal (corporal) and in this coverage served for two years as commander of the kibbutz. There, too, he excelled as a grocer, and when the kibbutz began to plant the first vineyard, he called the plantation branch and cultivated with affection and dedication every sapling. He also liked the plants of man, including his son and daughter born in Yad Mordechai. He used to make toys for the children and they gave him affection. His mischievousness and joy, with their maturity and responsibility, brought joy to the hearts of the members of the former Hachshara youth. In the winter of 1948, when the War of Independence broke out, he continued to work in the groves and tried to plant his disbelievers in his belief that it would be in vain for them to do so.after a few days the Egyptian attack began and he served as a position commander and managed to stop the enemy’s armor until he was hit by an Egyptian shell and fell , On the 11th of Iyar 5708 (May 20, 1948.) He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Yad Mordechai, leaving behind a wife and two children.