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Zilig, Rudolf

Zilig, Rudolf

Son of Johanna and Shmuel, was born on December 31, 1913, in a town in East Germany, to a traditional Jewish family, who, after finishing high school, specialized in making and making clothes for ladies’ clothes, and in 1939 escaped without certificates to Antwerp and Belgium When he did not come to Brussels, he moved to Brussels and worked in a cafe, where he was arrested as a documentless man and deported to the French border and from there to a detention camp near the Spanish border. When he knew what was in store for him, he jumped out of the car as he passed near a border and fled, held for four months in a detention camp, and finally returned to Belgium, When he heard that in Eretz Israel, too, he could work in this profession without being a tolerable foreigner, he turned to the illegal immigration route and on September 1, 1947 he arrived in Israel and began to work in his profession. He joined the IDF. During his service in the Israel Defense Forces he contracted typhoid fever and died in a military hospital on the 14th of Cheshvan 5709 (14.11.1948) and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Haifa.

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