Wolger, Moshe (“Mishko”)

He was born in 1913 in Brody, Galicia and he immigrated with a group of his friends to Israel. For a short time, he lived in Tel Aviv and after a while settled in Gedera and worked as a laborer. Moshe managed to overcome the difficulties of the new reality and found tremendous adherence to his goals. At the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1936-1939, he volunteered for the Guard Corps. Moshe was assigned to the police station in Gedera and attached to the “moving guard” whose job it was to secure and preserve the space of Gedera-Hulda. On 24 Av. August 9, 1939, when he returned with his friends to the guard to patrol the dirt roads between Ekron and Hulda, the van on which they were traveling came on a powerful mine. The five guards were injured and four of them, Moshe among them, died of their wounds. Moshe was brought to eternal rest, together with his friends who perished with him, in the cemetery in Gedera. He left a wife.