Martin Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on January 17, 1915 as a son of the Kissingen dentist Mendel Hirsch and his wife Rachel née Winter. He grew up in the spa town and attended Realschule Bad Kissingen between 1925 and 1931. His class teacher Gagel describes him as a student “supporting the teacher’s work” and “winning the trust of the class and acting as their leader”.

In August 1934, he moved to Yugoslavia according to registration documents. In May 1937 he married Frieda Bluma Peterseil in Hamburg, who was born in Kiel in 1918 and whose family came from Poland.

The young couple then emigrated to Palestine, where they both received their naturalization certificates in 1940. The marriage was short-lived. Martin Bamberger married his second wife Rebecca (Rivka) Lehmann in February 1945, with whom he had three children.

Martin's parents and brothers and sisters had emigrated in time. As staunch Zionists they very early decided on a new start in Palestine. Martin Bamberger first worked as agriculture labourer, he then taught mathematics in the Kibbutz Heftziba for some time. He died there in April 1972 at the age of 57. His wife survived him by another thirty years; she died in December 2002 at the age of 81.