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Brod, Chaim

Brod, Chaim


Son of Zippora and Shimon. He was born in the village of Radomysl in Poland in the village of Radomysl, Poland, in the village of Radomysl, Poland, where he grew up in his childhood as a child when he went to Germany to study secular studies and to study in technology in Frankfurt and later in Vienna. In 1933. He worked at the Technion in Haifa and worked as a construction worker since his work in the building made it very difficult for him to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but he lived in the Dead Sea, In order to save money for further studies During the Second World War, when the enlistment of volunteers for the Jewish infantry units in the British army began, the national institutions asked him to release him from this enlistment, and during the Second World War he was active in public life and was elected to the local workers council. When he saw his work at the Dead Sea as a vital national service, but he refused: “I will be ashamed before my sons if I do not stand in front of the enemy.” He resigned from his army service and joined the army. He also came to Italy, to the front of the war with the Germans. At the beginning of 1945. On the 17 th and 18 th of March, Haim and several soldiers from his battalion’s 3rd Battalion regiment set out to set up a 4-meter-wide path in the minefields that separated them from German positions to allow the passage of tanks. Following this action, soldiers from his battalion attacked three “Churchill” tanks, a fortified German position, “La Jiorgeta” on the Vilanova front. Before the first tank, Chaim and three friends ran to mark the path that was cleared of mines. German fire was concentrated with machine guns and mortars on the bare attackers, and Chaim was hit in the neck and died instantly. He was laid to rest on April 20, 1945, in the cemetery of the Jewish Brigade in Pyangipiano, near Ravenna, Italy. He left a wife and a ten-month-old baby. His name was immortalized in the book “The Jewish Brigade.” Specify the position of the cIVO cIV.A.3 unit cPalestinecRegimentc rank cLancecCorporal

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