Grover, Hanan

Chanan, the son of Sarah and Moshe, was born on February 3, 1930 in Poland, in the town of Kpichnitz, in the Ternopol region (now Ukraine), whose parents were wealthy and respected people in the town. In 1939 he was annexed to the Ternopol region, The Germans occupied the area in 1941. They entered the city on July 7, 1941, and the situation of the Jews deteriorated sharply. Hundreds of Jews were sent to labor and extermination camps, where most of them were murdered, and Hanan’s parents were murdered by the Nazis at the beginning of the war. But Hanan’s sister was murdered when Polish rioters stole the rest of their property and remained an orphan, the last remnant of his family, who joined the Zionist pioneering training commune in Germany. The illegal immigrant ship in which the British arrived was seized by the British, and all its passengers were brought to the Atlit detention camp. After his release from Atlit, Hanan was admitted to Kibbutz Sde Nahum in the Jezreel Valley – one of the first communities to get on the land as part of the “Tower and Stockade” settlements. He spent a year and a half in the kibbutz as part of the “Youth Company”, completed his studies and underwent training. He was known to have a good temperament, a hard worker and a loyal friend. When the War of Independence broke out he enlisted with all members of the Palmach’s 6th Battalion (“Jerusalem”), served as a machine gunner, and when they were drafted, the members of the ” Haganah “and took part in the battles of the battalion in the Jerusalem and Latrun areas. On the eve of the second truce, on July 16, 1948, Hanan and his comrades went on Operation Miki during Operation Mickey, which was part of Operation Danny, and was attacked, among other things, by the large Jordanian compound in Latrun, which blocked the road to Jerusalem As a threat to the nearby Burma Road, which was launched a few weeks earlier, this time it was decided to attack the compound from the east, and the mission was assigned to the 4th and 6th Battalion Fighters. The Jordanians launched a counter-attack against Gaza and were assisted by armored personnel carriers with machine guns and machine guns. Hanan, who was in the platoon, fired his machine gun until it stopped. Raising his head to repair the machine gun, he was wounded in the stomach by an enemy bullet. As he bleeded, he cried: “Hello guys, I’m dying so young …” These were his last words. Eighteen years old in his fall. Hanan was initially considered missing. His body was found later and with the rest of the victims of the battle was brought to eternal rest on the 11th of Adar 5702 (28.2.1950) in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. From the eulogy of Hanan: “You have come out to redeem the homeland and sacrifice yourself on the altar of the people … You have not won the circle and seen our independence, but thanks to you our country is liberated, because of you the corridor has been expanded. Live to Jerusalem, and that is your reward. ” This hero is a “last scion”. The last survivor of the Holocaust is Holocaust survivors who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters), who personally experienced the Holocaust in the ghettosAnd / or in concentration and extermination camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / or fighting alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II,