Yaffa, Naftali (Tolk)

Son of Esther and David-Israel, was born on January 24, 1924 in the town of Chodak in the Galicia region, Poland. He completed an elementary school and was a member of the He – Chaluts movement. When the Germans occupied the place, he was taken to a detention camp and from there transferred to a death camp, but at the last minute managed to escape and joined the Russian partisans. At the time of the establishment of the Polish army on Russian soil after the Stalin-Sikorski agreement under General Anders, he did much to save Jewish boys who had come to this country before he immigrated. His turn to immigrate came only in the second year of his release, in 1947. He was among the illegal immigrants to the ship “23 Yordei Hasira” and from Cyprus, and upon his arrival in Israel he joined the IDF and served in the Givati ​​Brigade. Naftali fell in the position, in the Green neighborhood of Holon, when he felt that he would give medical help to a wounded Etzel member on Tuesday, 14.1.1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.