Gurevitch, Baruch

Son of Mala and Yitzhak-Mendel. He was born in Vilna in 1914 and was a son of his parents, and at the age of five he was orphaned from his mother and raised by his father, and at first attended the Tarbut school in his town, He was always interested in reading books and was very interested in the Zionist idea and the Land of Israel, and in 1936 he immigrated to Eretz Israel after a great deal of effort, to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and find his livelihood in hard work he was not used to. Was proud of the warts growing on his hands and was Simcha that he was “better than the Polish university.” At the outbreak of the bloody events, he was one of the first volunteers for the Nutras and courageously stood guard. When they warned him against danger he used to answer: “Who will defend the people of the spot and its builders? He was known to all those who knew him as a cheerful young man, full of optimism and faith. One of his great pains was to bring his family to Israel. On August 21, 1936, Baruch was on guard duty to protect the car of the Finance Ministry workers who had been ambushed and killed in an assassination attempt with three other guards, and was buried in a mass grave in the old cemetery in Tel Aviv. “Remember, he was immortalized in the books” The 1936 Riots “; “Blood and Fire Events of 1936-1937” and a booklet to commemorate the victims of Kfar Saba and the surrounding area.