Auction #41

Photo album by Kibbutz Gilad (84 photos) submitted about 20 years since its founding 12.3.65Kibbutz Gilad - ID card  Kibbutz Gilad was founded by graduates of the Habonim and He - Chaluts movement in Germany and came to the ground in March 1945.Beginning of the story of the kibbutz in the 1930s After the Nazis came to power in Germany, the Habonim and He - Chaluts movement, led by Giora Yoseftal, a training farm for Jewish children who were thrown out of German schools, set up for their immigration to Israel. Here, at the training farm, the first dream of establishing "Kibbutz Aliyah" of the movement's graduates in Israel was realized.The kibbutz "Gilad" was later named in memory of those friends and families who did not immigrate to Israel and perished in the Holocaust and symbol of a settlement that grew out of the Holocaust.In December 1939, a group of 40 members, who were in training in Givat Haim, founded the "Ra'anan Ra'anana" group in a temporary camp between Ra'anana and Givat Hen. In the spring of 1945, the group immigrated to the "Ephraim Mountains" (Ramat Menashe today). "In memory of Yitzhak Ochberg, a donor from South Africa, who donated all his fortune to the Jewish National Fund for the redemption of the land of Israel.Gilad was established as a lone kibbutz between Arab villages, far from any other Jewish settlement, but the dream of a kibbutz that is all German immigrants began to develop and tend to be inspired by Giora and Santa Yoseftal.