Parcourez la nécrologie de David Gottlieb Sunday February 05 2023 résidant dans la province Ontario pour le détail des funérailles

GOTTLIEB, David – July 19, 1927 – February 5, 2023. David Gottlieb passed away of pneumonia after a brief illness. Husband of Betty (nee Gotkin). Father of Daphne Taras (Allen Ponak) and Dan Gottlieb (Susan Tu). Grandfather of Matthew Taras (Victoria) and Joel Taras, Courtney Gottlieb (Richard Guppy) and Dale Gottlieb. Step-grandfather to David and Matthew Ponak. Great-grandfather of Thaddeus Taras and Solstice Guppy. Born in Tzebinia, Poland, where the Nazis and sympathizers ran forced-labour camps, and 19 kms from Auschwitz, the Gottlieb family escaped to Palestine in 1936 with 4 young boys. The eldest, Joseph, died of typhoid fever en route. The family settled near the old Technion High School. David remembered school outings to the Haifa port. Jews who survived the Holocaust threw themselves off boats to evade the British blockade and enter Palestine. Students pulled them from the Mediterranean and changed them into dry, local clothing. With cover from students, the arrivals were absorbed into nearby kibbutzim. When David was 19, during a year of constant and deadly skirmishes among British, Hebrew and Arab operatives, David was working at the British Police Station, with a Hagenah supervisor. On June 28, 1947, while walking to duty, David came upon a terribly injured man lying beneath a tree in the park. David insisted on carrying him to the hospital. The man declined, urging David to leave the park quickly. David refused, carried the man and followed his directions to a house. David knocked and dragged the man inside. «Go away,» they said, «quickly.» David never learned the name of the man he saved. When David got to the Station, there was pandemonium. At the Astoria Restaurant, a site favoured by the British, two Jewish Lehi terrorists had just murdered British officer Captain Kissane and wounded two other officers. The British fired back at the Lehi taxi repeatedly, later finding it empty, but «filled with a satisfactory amount of blood.»British were searching for terrorists, and Jews participating in such activity were confined to the Acre prison and then sentenced to death by hanging. Reprisals from both sides were swift and deadly. David faced a terrible dilemma. If he confessed to inadvertently helping a Lehi operative, he would be executed. If he gave the British the location of the safe house, Lehi would retaliate. If the Lehi operative was captured and tortured, he might point to his rescuer. David consulted his Hagenah superior. Understanding the danger, the Hagenah cleared the safe house, and found a place to protect David, in Kfar Glikson. He spent months in hiding, returning to fight in Operation Bi’ur Hametz, the Battle of Haifa. David’s younger brother Ari was wounded, but left the hospital to rejoin his unit in the Haifa port area. Ari was killed by a Palestinian sniper, and David found his brother’s body. David then walked home to tell his parents that they had lost another child. David associated Passover with tragedy. David and his older brother Menachem became civil engineers, both graduating from the Technion. David was hired to oversee infrastructure development for Nothern Israel. David and Betty met and married on June 6, 1954. They purchased a condo and had their daughter in Haifa. David was called into military service many times, including Suez 1956. They moved to Toronto in 1959, and David joined the Township of North York as an engineer. He had never experienced a kinder and more collegial workplace, and is forever grateful to North York. A son was born in Toronto. With little seniority, David knew that his career could not advance quickly enough to satisfy his ambitions. He joined Schaeffer and Associates and remained with Schaeffers, as a full partner, until both he and Fred Schaeffer retired together. David felt that Fred was his brother, and he could not imagine a better partnership or a warmer friendship than with Fred and Beverly Schaeffer. David enjoyed the engineers, draftsmen, and town planners of Schaeffers. He appreciated the De Gasperis family and spent more time with his many Italian friends than his Jewish compatriots. Multilingual, shaped by war and immigration, David was a citizen of the world. He helped build a multi-cultural company. Open to experiences, anxious to travel, a movie-goer of both Hollywood and foreign films, adept at using chopsticks after visiting China in 1971, David was fanatical about watching news multiple times a day. His analysis of Middle East events was prescient. He loved watching his son play chess, significantly more than watching his daughter perform ballet. Despite 63 years speaking only heavily- accented English, David reverted to Hebrew on his last day, having a loving conversation with his late-brother Menachem about how they both hated a certain teacher in high school. May the memory of David Gottlieb be for a blessing. Funeral on Thursday, private shiva.

Sunday February 05 2023

benjamins park memorial chapel

Décès pour la Ville:Toronto, Province: Ontario

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nécrologie David Gottlieb Sunday February 05 2023

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