Hanani, Zvi

Son of Sarah and Hananiah. He was born in 1922 in Poland and came to Israel with Anders’ army. When the army arrived in Israel, Zvi Arak, like many other soldiers, hid as an illegal immigrant in Kibbutz Shefayim. After a while, Zvi left the kibbutz, enlisted in the Jewish Brigade, and as a Jewish soldier arrived in Poland and searched for family members who survived the Holocaust. He found no one. In Poland, Zvi met with his sister’s girlfriend and brought her to Israel. Tzvi lived in Kiryat Nahum in Haifa and worked as a security guard on buses that went to Jerusalem via Sha’ar Hagai. At the beginning of the War of Independence he was drafted into the Jerusalem Brigade. On the 16th of Iyar 5708 (16.5.1948) Zvi fell in a battle near Barclays Bank in Jerusalem and was buried at the cemetery in Sanhedria.