Grushka, Chaim

Was born on October 12, 1930, in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, at the age of nine, during which he was ravaged by the events of the Second World War and the Nazi occupation, his father was murdered and his mother gave him and his sister money for a Christian family And the two children went to work in the village with the peasants, and Polish Christians who pretended to be “German” (Volksdeutsche) suspected that he was a Jew and caught him. Only to a peasant in another village with forged documents as a Christian His sister and both joined the “Dror” kibbutz, from which they wandered through DP camps in Germany and Italy and the dangers of the border crossing, and at the beginning of 1947. After a struggle with the British soldiers at the Haifa port they were deported to Cyprus, When the country was already occupied by the flames of the War of Independence, he was allowed to immigrate to Israel and joined a “youth company” in Kibbutz Gesher, and began to become involved in life and work. The largest of the Arab Legion’s heavy weapons on a bridge, was severely damaged by shrapnel and when it was possible to remove it from the line of fire after five hours For a short hour and was brought to rest in the cemetery in Ashdot Yaakov. His memory was included in a booklet published by Kibbutz Gesher in memory of his fallen soldiers.