Wollgmuth, Gershon (Gardi)

Son of Sidi and Hans was born on 30.6.1927 in the city of Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, Germany, where his father took a prominent place in the Jewish community, visiting the local Jewish elementary school, He sang in the choir of the synagogue, composed songs and participated in children’s plays performed by Jewish institutions, and in 1937, when he was ten years old, he died from his father, and his mother moved to Romania and spent another year in Germany, Near Berlin, where he moved to his mother in Romania and studied in a technical school until he was given the opportunity to immigrate to Eretz Israel and set out with a group of 200 children (as he put it: 199 “Children, and God You”), who immigrated to Israel in 1941. He was educated at the “Ahava” institution in Kiryat Bialik, where he developed his musical talents and composed songs and songs that were sung by the students, The youngest of the group – as a tractor operator, until his mother immigrated to Israel and moved to live in Haifa with Gershon preparing for the London matriculation exams and entering the Technion, working as a member of the Haganah. He always chose the most dangerous places, and when they told him he had to take care of himself, he would reply: “If everyone thought like you, how will the land be established in our hands?” On 18 January 1948, he was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa, leaving behind a mother, a wife and a baby. Fell.