Grebow, Abraham

Son of Golda and Yitzhak. He was born on July 9, 1914, in the village of Rokita, in eastern Poland. Abraham was the youngest of his family, and his parents’ house was characterized by warmth, love, generosity and peace. When he was four years old, the family moved to a small town near the village of his birth. Where he grew up as a handsome and handsome boy and attracted to the beauty of the surrounding fields. As a child, the town knew a wave of riots. His older sister put her life in her hand to save her family, and this made a deep impression on Abraham. He later joined the “Hechalutz Hatza’ir” branch in the area, published an internal newspaper called “Our Expressions,” and lists from it were copied to “Lehavot”, the pioneering youth newspaper in Poland. When Avraham was about 15, he went to the hachshara in Gorochov, the agricultural farm of Hehalutz near the capital Warsaw. Afterward, he continued his training at Klosova in Volhynia and later was active in his pioneering movement’s mission to organize and strengthen the branches of Hechalutz Hatzair. At the beginning of 1935 he immigrated to Eretz Israel. One winter he worked in the “Ha-Kovesh” Company in Kfar Sava and later moved to Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh. In 1936 he was one of the first guards. At the end of 1936 he worked on paving roads in Israel and his farm was only available on Saturdays. Over time he volunteered for training in the “HaNoar Haoved” training group and soon gained the appreciation and affection of its members. The calamities that plagued Ramat Hakovesh in the days of the bloody riots clouded his spirit. In a memorial to one of the friends who fell while guarding, he wrote, among other things: “How much power is life, how valuable is life, what a pity for the abundance of spring …” On the 14th of Adar 5639 (March 5, 1939), he arrived in Jerusalem to attend the seminar To the immigrant youth counselors. Which took place in Beit Hakerem. In the evening Avraham went to the city center and on his return to the seminar he found himself on the wrong bus. When he saw his mistake, he got off the bus and continued on foot towards Beit Hakerem. On the way he passed not far from the Arab village of Lifta. It seemed that a group of Arabs had attacked him from behind and hit him in the head with a blunt instrument. The next day his body was found in a puddle of water. Abraham was brought to eternal rest in Ramat Hakovesh. He was 25 years old. He left parents, a sister in Israel, a sister in Poland and a brother in Argentina. A list in his memory was published in Davar and in Yemei Ramah.