Dr.  Zlatko Wamocher

A doctor and gentleman who loves man and nature

That’s how we wrote his grave, because how can you summarize an entire life in two lines

Father was born in the town of Jacobo in Yugoslavia in 1923 and grew up in the town of Osijek

In the spring of 1942, when the Jewish situation worsened, his parents sent him with the help of forged documents towards Italy (which he never reached) in the hope that he would survive, he never forgave himself that he was the only survivor of his entire family, and this clouded his entire life until his death. Father managed to reach the Adriatic coast.

Towards the end of 1942, all the Jews were transferred to a concentration camp in the city of Karlovica, and in 1943 to a concentration camp on Rab Island, where father met mother and since then they have not been separated, in September 43 they escaped to the mountains and joined the partisans

In the spring of 1945, after the end of the war, father returns to Osyk, realizes that none of his family survived except him, and leaves immediately.

When they heard about the establishment of the state, they immigrated to Israel in December 1948 with very little property and money.

As pioneers in the Land of Israel, they establish Moshav Kidron in 1949, mother works a huge farm almost alone and father begins to study medicine in Jerusalem, in 1954 father becomes a full-fledged doctor.

In the fifties he works as a doctor in the rural book in the south.

He completes his Israeliness and becomes a medical officer in the IDF, serving in all of Israel’s wars until the Yom Kippur War in which he was the commander of hospitals for burn victims that were established in Ashkelon.

At the end of the sixties, he was appointed a district doctor of the Yehuda district in a health fund that controls a very large area from the border of the Beer Sheva district to the central area.

Following the appointment, the family moves to the streets where he lived until his last day.

Father was a bookish man with many verbs and hobbies, full of knowledge and curiosity.

Died at the age of 92 surrounded by his family.

He left behind a wife, a daughter and a son, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Of blessed memory.