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He was born in 1911 in Frampol, and fell as a casualty in the year 1948 while defending Ramat-Rachel.
In the shtetl, we knew him as one of the first who saw and correctly assessed the impact of the Jews. As soon as he left Heder, he showed an interest and looked for a solution for the specific needs of his people. He was orphaned by the death of his father. His mother, Fradl ע”ה had to support a family of four people. But she saw the yearnings of Itcheh, and exerted herself to have him sent to be educated by the best melamdim, such as, Akiva-Meir, who also had a reputation for planting the idea of the importance of secular studies in his students, apart from Torah and Wisdom. Thanks to this, Itcheh accumulated a great deal of Jewish and Secular knowledge.
However, he needed to help his mother bear the yoke of providing for the family – whether it was a small food store, or in commerce. But he saw no future for himself, no perspective. He began to take an interest in problems that were social and partisan. In the Land of Israel, he saw the solution of all Jewish needs.
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We remember him as one of the most active of the Halutzim in the shtetl. Inspired, he traveled off for training in Pinsk, and later in Vilna. In the year 1934, he became qualified for aliyah – and upon arrival in the Land of Israel, he was faithful to his course from Frampol: He entered a kibbutz. He was among the first to go up on the land behind Jerusalem, in kibbutz Ramat-Rachel, and it was there that he set up his family nest.
Everyone in the kibbutz loved him. As an activist, he went through the most dangerous trials, sometimes – under the hail of bullets, in May, 1948, with the outbreak of the War of Independence. He stood in Ramat-Rachel with a gun in hand, and defended the land, his kibbutz and his family – a wife and three children. He fell with his weapon in his hand.
Itcheh, we will remind ourselves of your idealism and your sacrifice.
Honor to your bright memory!
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He was the son of Yehoshua and Esther-Feiga, born in Frampol on 30th of Sivan 5688 (18.6.1928). After The Second World War, he joined kibbutz ‘Dror’ in Lublin. He served two years there, and then made aliyah to the Land in 1948 in the ships of the fleeing refugees, ‘Fabia.’
During the War of Independence, he participated in several difficult battles in Jerusalem. He fell in the battle of the intersection of the vendors on the 5th of Tevet in the year 5709 (6.1.1949). He left a wife behind, and his son, who was born after he was killed and therefore named after him.
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As a 12 year-old boy, together with his parents and family, he left the village, where they had lived for a few years, and moved to Szczebrzeszyn. Later, The Second World War broke out along with its pursuit and murder of Jews. During one of these relocation aktionen, Israel gets a chance to leap off of the train. He came to a village, where my brother Moshe and I had hidden ourselves. Our plight with the peasants grew worse day-by-day. All three of us were together for a bit of time. My brothers parted from me, so they can go off to Frampol, their birthplace.
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Arriving in Frampol, they encountered one of the German aktionen to kill Jews. My brother fell, a victim of their murdering. Israel was able to flee to the village. Later, he committed himself to the partisans. Before this, I got a chance to send him over to Lublin, where he entered a Jewish orphanage. Those children were also killed – and once again, Israel managed to flee.
After the liberation, he hoped to find someone of those survivors of his family. He finds only me in the village. We make aliyah to the Land of Israel.
On May 20, 1957 (19 Iyyar 5717), riding on a tractor from work, a murderous bullet struck him in the heart – and he died.
Honor his memory!
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