Boyum, Haim-Meir
Son of Chaya and Shimon, was born on April 14, 1931 in the city of Iasi, Romania. His mother died at birth and his grandmother grew up until the age of four. He attended elementary school and in the vocational school, where he continued his studies, specialized in mechanics. In 1942, the Germans separated him from his father and deported him to labor camps in Transnistria. After the liberation of Romania from the Nazi oppressor in 1945, the son and father met, but the son refused to return home, and joined the Betar training company and in 1948 immigrated to Eretz Israel and was sent like many other immigrants to the detention camps in Cyprus, He immigrated to Israel at the beginning of April 1948 and was only sixteen and a half years old, where he stayed for 10 days and then left for Netanya to take part in the War of Independence, And was sent to an Irgun training base in Shuni. Haim-Meir went out together with various people to the battles of Ramle and on the 11th of Iyar 5708 (May 20, 1948), was killed in a battle with a group of various people and since then was considered a space whose burial place is unknown. Following an investigation by the Unit for Missing Persons in the IDF in cooperation with the Unit for the Commemoration of the Soldier, it became clear that Meir-Haim was buried in a mass grave in Kiryat Shaul in 1952 and that a gravestone had not been placed in his name on the day of the 18th of Shvat. A monument was placed in his name in the mass grave and a ceremony was held to discover a monument
