Tzitar, Yosef-Chaim

Yosef-Chaim, son of Antela and Avraham-Yitzhak Tzitar, was born on 22.2.1910 in the city of Lodz, Poland. He attended elementary and high school there, and later worked as a metalworker and joined the Poalei Zion party. He emigrated to Israel in 1939, continued to work in his profession and lived with his family in Holon. Yosef-Chaim was a diligent worker and did everything in his power to establish his family’s future. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he dedicated his nights as a veteran Haganah member to guard positions, although according to his age and the situation of his family he could have been released. Yosef-Chaim took his wife, Rachel, and baby home from the hospital, and from then on chose to guard his home city to be near his family. While standing guard in a lookout in the Green neighborhood, Yosef-Chaim was hit in the head by a bullet and died, on the 13th of Nissan, 22.4.1948. He was laid to rest at the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.