Greenbaum, Arie
Was born on December 8, 1926, in Poland, and during the Second World War he was exiled to the Auschwitz extermination camp and from there transferred to a concentration camp in Germany and upon his liberation by the Red Army, And immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1946. His first experience was in Kiryat Anavim, and from there he moved to Beit Haavneh six months later, worked in a metalwork shop and was active in security matters before the outbreak of the War of Independence. He completed a physical training course and was successful in becoming a sports instructor in one of the Golani Brigade battalions. He participated in all the battles in Beit Shean, Beit Yosef, Sandela and the Negev. He was a good friend and knew how to bridge his role, as commander of a mortar squad, and between his friends. He took care of his soldiers and encouraged them whenever he could. In Operation Horev, the Egyptian army was forced to carry out the opening operation of the 86th Regiment, northeast of Khan Yunis, and the wedge of the Egyptian army. In this battle he fell on the 22nd of December, 1948, and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Heftzi-Baha. Pages in his memory appear in a memory booklet of Kibbutz Heftzi-Bah “in memory of the four”.
