Feivlovich, Chaim Leon

Chaim, son of Hannah and Paul Feivlovich, was born on March 26, 1907 in Poland. He immigrated to Israel in 1936. During the 1936 riots he participated in operations against the Arabs, was arrested and imprisoned in the Acre fortress and was forced to leave the country and return to Poland. In the summer of 1939 he was drafted into the Polish army and served as a ground mechanic in the air force.
On October 26, 1945, he returned to Israel, worked as a driver at a flour mill in Haifa Bay and found happiness and comfort with his wife and two daughters. One day, when he brought a flour shipment to Tel Aviv, he was sent to participate in a convoy to transport food to Gush Etzion. On 17 Adar, March 27, 1948, near Nebi-Daniel, the convoy was attacked on its way back to Jerusalem. The convoy’s passengers were killed, Chaim among them. His burial place was unknown, and a memorial was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. In March 1966, it became clear that Haim was buried as an anonymous person in a mass grave of the convoy’s victims. The sign “Anonymous” was removed from the grave and a tombstone was placed with the name and details of his life.