Gutterman, Shmuel

Son of Bella and Zvi-Aryeh. Born in 1900 in Poland, he immigrated to Czernowitz in Romania at a young age, where he married and in 1935 they immigrated to Eretz Israel. They aspired to an agricultural corner and purchased a plot of land in Kiryat Haroshet (a settlement at the foot of the Carmel near Elroy, where some sixty families lived) and set up a small farm. Shmuel worked for a living as a bakery laborer in Haifa and at the end of a hard day worked his small garden and planted fruit trees, but he also found time to join the ranks of the Haganah and take part in its activities. On 20.7.1938, the small settlement was attacked by dozens of Arabs armed with rifles. They broke into the Gutterman family hut, and they shot Shmuel, his wife Leah, and their daughter, Bilha, a year and a half old. Then they set the hut on fire without leaving a trace. Shmuel and his family were laid to rest in Kiryat Haroshet.