Bernstein, Grisha

Son of Michael was born in 1925 in Danzig, Poland. His communist parents emigrated to Russia, where Grisha bought his education. During the Second World War he served in the Red Army and participated in many battles against the Germans. Despite his youth, he became an officer in the Artillery Corps. At the end of the war, he approached Zionism and was one of the organizers and operatives of the “Irgun Ha – Bricha” from Eastern Europe to France. When he arrived in Israel in 1946, he joined Kibbutz Be’eri in the Negev and a few months later joined the Jewish Settlements Police and served in Hulda. However, after he saw that the Palmach service was more efficient during a period of struggle than the police assigned to the British command, he joined one of the Palmach battalions, served in the Ein Ha-Shofet department, was transferred together with his friends to Kibbutz Shamir in the Galilee and in the outbreak of the War of Independence – – The water and accompany the caravans on the way between Nir and Rehovot. He also participated in other activities throughout the Negev. On the 15th of Adar I 5708 (February 15, 1948), he drove the armored vehicle at the head of a convoy, which passed by the village of the murderers in Barir, where Grisha found the road blocked and went down to dismantle the checkpoint. To rest forever in the cemetery at Kibbutz Be’eri, who was in Israel without any parents or relatives.