Belaishtin, Nachman

Son of Israel. He was born in 1904 in Brisk, Kamyavsk, Poland. As a member of a Hasidic family, he received a religious education as a child and later moved to a general school and graduated with honors. He acquired good knowledge in several languages, expanded his education but did not prevent him from feeling suffocated in the town. He found his way to the ranks of the pioneering youth, joined the Hechdutah and later Hehalutz. In 1937, Nachman immigrated to Eretz Israel as a reserve for a group that was in training in Hulda, where he joined the ranks of the Haganah. His friends remember his trips around the farmhouses, around the pen and the barn, as he watched, listened, studied, and explored. In this way he formulated his views on kibbutz life and expressed them in meetings. In the riots of 1936-1939, on the 27th of Tishrei, October 21, 1938, on his return from work to Hulda in a truck, fire was opened on the truck and he and two of his comrades were killed on the spot. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Hulda.