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Fisher, Haim (Isser)

Fisher, Haim (Isser)


Son of Golda and Hanoch, was born on August 19, 1927, in Poland. All his childhood and youth lived and grew up in Budapest. During the Nazi takeover of Hungary, he was deported to an extermination camp and managed to escape to Romania, where he worked in the underground in assisting the Jewish refugees. In December 1945 he boarded a convoy of Youth Aliyah. In Israel, he left his age to volunteer in the British Army to fight the Nazis, and was hired by a driver’s unit. When he was discharged from the army he joined the Mivtachim group in the Negev and worked as a driver. He quickly acclimated to the life of the country and the group and became known as a Simcha and cheerful friend in daily life and did not much to sadden the hearts of his friends with sad and horrific stories from his troubles in Europe. He liked his car and treated her like a Bedouin in his noble horse, which would always be Yaffa, clean and complete. During the difficult months of the winter of 1948, with the beginning of the War of Independence after the UN General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of the country into two states, his car used his daring expeditions to bring water and food to the group by means of mines, roadblocks, ambushes and attacks, To a place of safety. He also took part in a battle on the water line near the Imara police station. In the spring of 1948, when the British “celebrated” their departure from the Negev, on the verge of leaving the country, a unit of soldiers attempted to abuse Jewish points in the Negev, The food was also used here with the same excuse and they said to take the farm car with its driver to the Arabon, and when the mukhtar refused, they announced that they would shell the farm and set out to shoot with light weapons and cannons. The security guard was ordered to go down and when he approached the stairs and the machine gun in his hand, he fell from a direct hit Nissan Gas thirteenth day of Independence (04/22/1948). Buried insurers. On Cheshvan fees Tsi”a (09/11/1950) was laid-rest at the military cemetery in Nahalat Yitzhak.

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