Karbi (Kravchik), Boaz (Bruno)

Son of Avraham and Gitel. He was born on July 30, 1937 in Katowice, Poland. He was two years old when the Second World War broke out and from then until his arrival in Israel he experienced hardships and wandering, hunger and orphanhood. He was eight years old when his sisters and brothers, against the wishes of the father, decided to immigrate to Israel in Aliyah Bet. Boaz had to stay with his father, but he grew up without time in the hardships of the war, and the anti-Semitic atmosphere in the Polish school in Katowice, where his family returned, aroused his Jewish feeling and demanded that he immigrate. Against the wishes of the father and in secret, the sisters took him with him and transferred him to the place where he lived in a children’s home, in order to wait for a permit. The sisters and the brother continued their journey in the meantime. Finally, in 1948, he arrived in Israel and joined his sisters at Kibbutz Afek. In the children’s society he stood out in his purity of mind, generosity and willingness to bear every burden and role. Where he completed his studies in the 12th grade, joined the Hanoar Haoved movement, was drafted into the IDF in August 1957 and shortly thereafter, on the 29th of Kislev 5718 (November 29, 1957), he fell in the line of duty and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery Kibbutz Afek issued a pamphlet in his memory.