Brown, Meir

Born in Vienna, Austria, on September 2, 1924, he was the only son of elderly, poor, and traditional parents, and in the elementary school he arranged and prepared his lessons with a well-to-do Zionist family. He joined the Maccabee youth movement at the age of 14. Since the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, he suffered greatly from Hitler’s youth, and in the summer of 1939 his family immigrated to Israel. Because of the outbreak of the Second World War, they remained stranded in Yugoslavia After two years of hardships, hunger, shortages and cold, they arrived in Eretz Israel in March 1941, in the framework of Youth Aliyah, and after they were released from the Atlit camp on Passover eve, he moved with his group of education and training in Kvutzat Shiller. He moved to Kibbutz Kfar Hahoresh, where he was sent to the Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv and spent his free time studying for his matriculation exams, while his group joined the Hadassah group and returned to the extended group to her temporary residence in Hadera He went with her to settle in Kibbutz Gezer. He went to work in the locksmith shop and later in the bed factory, and reached a high level of training in his new profession. In his spare time, he listened to good music or distinguished himself with good books in his tent. He bore his own suffering inwardly, and for others it was only a kind of kindness, kindness, and kindness. In the months of the War of Independence, he worked and guarded and protected the rest of his comrades. Carrot was located next to the Ramle-Latrun road, and the Legion forces in the area saw it as a threat and asked it to be taken in preparation for the approaching truce. On Tuesday, June 10, 1948, an enemy force, consisting of a Legion Company, organized irregular forces and armored vehicles, attacked the kibbutz, and the enemy’s heavy fire destroyed the defensive positions and paralyzed any possibility of organized resistance. In this battle, fell on Tuesday, June 10, 1948. Meir was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Gezer.