Bar-Giora (Gerbersky), Meir

Son of Deborah and Moshe, was born on May 15, 1918 in the city of Kozlov, Russia. When he was ten, his parents moved to Lomza, Poland, where he attended the Hebrew school. Meir was a member of the Revisionist youth movement “Beitar” in 1936. He immigrated to Israel with his mother in 1936. He went to study engineering and worked at the same time, and at dawn he was a milk carrier and by eight o’clock he was already sitting on the school floor at Montefiore As a member of the Lehi underground who fought in the British, he was captured and imprisoned in Jaffa, Acre, Jerusalem and Mizra, until he was deported to Eritrea and Kenya. Even in the days of his exile, he worked hard on his studies and received an engineering degree after he had passed the written examinations. During his stay in Kenya he changed his mind about terrorism and approached the views of the Haganah. On his return to Israel, he was Simcha to see the realization of his dream of a liberated homeland and enlisted in the IDF as an engineer in the Navy. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.