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Bar Giora (Baumgarten), Moshe

Bar Giora (Baumgarten), Moshe


Son of Yehudit and Israel. He was born in 1910 in Wloclawek, Poland, and grew up in a national atmosphere from his father, a Zionist activist in his city, who absorbed his pioneering education and aspiration for self-realization, and joined the Gordonia youth movement in 1935. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1935. At the beginning he worked in Ein Harod, where his parents lived, and then worked in Haifa and Rishon LeZion in the carpentry profession so that he could finance the immigration of his two sisters to Israel, and joined the “Maaleh” group to live a long life, Defense. “Moshe quickly acclimated to the group and was known for his moderation, his sense of humor, dedication to work, He was aware of what was going on around him and of the willingness to lend a hand to any act, and he was particularly fond of the yards.The events of 1936, the Ma’aleh group from Rehovot to Kiryat Anavim came up as a training core to help solve the problem The work in the quarries (Jerusalem and Nahalat Yitzhak) and the provision of stone and gravel for construction, in light of the large Arab strike. On Thursday, November 9, 1937, when Moshe went out with four other members to prepare the land on the lands of the Jewish National Fund and forest work, the group was attacked by a gang of murderers and all five were killed. He left a wife, parents and two sisters, and in 1953 his bones were brought to Kibbutz Ma’aleh Hahamisha, which was established and named after the five fallen soldiers.

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