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Flam, Chaim

Flam, Chaim


Chaim, David’s son, was born in Poland in 1927. He was born in a wealthy family, studied in a “cheder” and in an elementary school in his city, and from the early years of his life he wished and dreamed his friends. Poland was the focal point of world Jewry in the religious, national, political, social and cultural spheres, with a population of about 3.5 million Jews.The severe economic crisis of the late 1930s affected Poland’s agriculture and exacerbated anti-Semitic tendencies and repressed the Jews, A key class in economic life, suffered an anti-Jewish economic boycott and increased pogroms. September 1, 1939, the war broke out with Germany’s invasion of Poland and its conquest in a lightning war, immediately following which anti-Jewish decrees and regulations were issued that resulted in the social isolation of the Jews, their economic deprivation, and the undermining of their entire lives. At the beginning of World War II, the Nazis imprisoned Chaim’s whole family in a concentration camp, and his parents were murdered. Only in 1944 did he escape to Russia, where he joined a group of partisans. After the victory over the Germans, Chaim returned to Poland. When he learned that no one of his family had survived, he moved to Germany and joined a training group. For a long time he served in the “Irgun Ha – Bricha,” and at constant risk he transferred Jewish immigrants through blocked borders and the routes of illegal immigration. When his turn came, in 1947, Chaim boarded an illegal immigrant ship en route to Israel. The ship was captured by the British, and all its passengers were deported to Cyprus. After a few months of deportation, Chaim came to Israel. He intended to join the kibbutz, but his group was dispersed and therefore remained in Haifa. Worked in the port of Haifa, settled in Nesher and settled in the life of the country. When the War of Independence began, Hayyim stabilized. On March 10, 1948, he joined the 21st Battalion of the “Carmeli” Brigade – the No. 2 Brigade in the Haganah. The battalion, whose first members came from the settlements of the Zevulun Valley and the Krayot, took part in the battles of the brigade in the north. On 21 April 1948, after the British left most of their positions in Haifa (excluding the port), the Israeli forces launched a major offensive against the Arab city. Because of the fear that the Arab Legion, which was parked along the Haifa-Jenin road, would intervene in the battle and help the Arab fighters in Haifa, the force from Battalion 21 placed a block and ambush in the Kibbutz Yagur plantations. (22.4.1948), the Legion began to move by car and armored vehicles from its bases towards Haifa, and was blocked by a blockage, and the Legion convoy was stopped in the first burst of fire. The only one from his battalion in the battle, and British forces armed with armored personnel carriers also came to the area and shelled the ambush, but the Israeli blockade Wicca itself and force did not intervene in the Legion took place in Haifa. On the eve of Passover, Israeli forces were able to capture the city, and establish a Jewish government. Chaim was twenty-one years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the Kfar Hasidim cemetery. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.

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