Grover, Avraham-Chaim

Was born in the large village of Szyf (a settlement of about 120 Jewish families) in the Romanian part of the Marmaros district, and at a young age he was circumcised and educated at his aunt’s home, where he attended elementary school and ” Was educated as a child on Torah and awe, but as a teenager he broke the family tradition and without his father’s consent, and while giving up his support he went to study knitting at the JDC’s vocational school in Sighet, the capital of the province, And more than once he worked overtime so that he could set aside his salary to grant charity to the poor, and when the Second World War broke out, the region was returned to Hungarian rule, Even more so than the Romanian authorities, Chaim-Avraham led his comrades to the railway station to provide them with water for drinking and fruit, and to encourage them to move to the city of Munkács and organize a cooperative for knitting. He went to the beit midrash and studied Torah, and on Saturdays he went to the tables of the Admorim or to Zionist youth meetings. With all his Zionism and his way of life in the spirit of the times, he continued to follow the path of Hasidism and before entering into business, he would submit “notes” and “redemptions” to the Admorim, according to the custom of his forefathers. To Budapest on the last train in which the Jews were permitted to travel and received work in a large Christian workshop, was well qualified and knowledgeable, and the owner of the factory obtained the documents of an Aryan Christian and released him as a vital worker. His family survived only one brother, who returned home and a sister in Sweden, and went with his brother to emigrate He joined a kibbutz of HaPoel Hamizrachi in Feldafing, where he served as foreign secretary and where he often helped the refugees, and in 1947 he received a permit to immigrate to Israel and began working in his profession in Tel Aviv. After a while, his brother arrived via Cyprus and his sister from Sweden, and according to unclear information, he was sent to the position in Netanya where he worked in diamond polishing. At the beginning of the War of Independence, he came to full service in the Alexandroni Brigade. He participated in many battles and recently in the battle for the conquest of Kaakun on the 5th of Iyar 5708 (June 5, 1948). In the middle of the attack he was hit by a bullet in his chest and when they came to evacuate him after two hours he managed to say: “It’s too late – do not tell my family.” Chaim-Avraham died at Beilinson Hospital and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva.