Chaim was born on May 27, 1927 in Poland, in Radom, Kielce Province. He grew up in his hometown. On September 8, 1939, a week after World War II, Radom was occupied by the Germans. Thousands of Jews who lived in the nearby provinces were brought to the city, while thousands of the city’s Jews were expelled from it. In March 1941 two ghettos were established in which the Jews were concentrated. On August 4, 1942, the liquidation of the ghetto began and most of its inhabitants were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp, where they were murdered. In June 1944 most of the remaining Jews were deported to Auschwitz. When Chaim was brought to the ghetto with his entire family, he was a soft boy, not tall, and he had to start working for the occupying forces. In the ghetto he worked as an assistant to photograph and various forms of development came into his possession. Sometimes it was his fate to develop photographs in which he saw the agony and torture he had experienced. But the “paradise” in the photographer did not last long. When the Radom ghetto was liquidated, Chaim’s family was also liquidated. He and his brother, the only ones left, were sent to a labor camp where his brother died. Chaim remained alone, tortured and wandered among the labor and concentration camps in Poland and Germany and miraculously survived. In 1945 he was liberated by the Allied armies and he is healthy in body and soul. After the liberation Chaim joined the Nocham (United Pioneering Youth) movement, which united Jewish youth from all sectors and all the Zionist parties in an attempt to immigrate to Eretz Israel and live in it. A tall, thin boy, with a large forelock, velvet eyes full of cheerfulness and innocence. He quickly became fond of friends and became an integral part of society. Cheerful and Simcha, singing and dancing. In Shdemot Grinshof, the days of his youth were renewed. Here he grew up, developed a strong connection to nature, to the village and to the kibbutz … From the top of the wagon he sang, singing endlessly. When he walked into the stable in the Tyrolean hat, in boots, fresh and energetic – as if he were bringing the spring with him. “Haim worked in whatever field he needed: softly and short and leading his horses to Goren, and after a day of hard work he studied, Oneg Shabbat, dancing, etc. His great love for the Land of Israel was evident, as did his affection for everything around him – alive and silent.Kibbutz Buchenwald immigrated to Israel via Italy, and on the way to the Alps he helped the mentally retarded and the weak, To the movement on the difficult situation in the Zionist pioneering training communes in Italy, and returned a few days later, The ship, which was organized by the Haganah’s Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet, sailed from Metaponto port in Italy on May 13, 1947, carrying 1,457 Ma’apilim from Eastern Europe – survivors of camps and members of youth movements. Not far from the Tel Aviv coast, the ship was spotted by the British, and because of its refusal to obey their instructions, it was attacked by destroyers who even sprayed jets of water, threw teargas grenades and landed soldiers in it. Eleven days after its departure, the ship was towed to the port of Haifa. The immigrants were transferred to a deportation ship and sent to Cyprus. During his stay in the deportation camp, Chaim enlisted in the Hagana, underwent a course of instructors and devotedly guided youth to their roles in Israel. Secretly, when the guards threatened him, he trained friends with weapons and was the first to wave the national flag in positions. At the beginning of 1948 Haim participated in digging a tunnel under the camp’s fences, managed to escape, and in early March 1948 he arrived in Israel. As soon as he arrived, he volunteered for the Palmach, passed a commanders’ course, and rose to the rank of lieutenant, joining the Seventh Battalion and in the coming monthsHe participated in escorting convoys to Jerusalem, in battles for the Castel and in the breakthrough to the Negev, in the battle for Iraq-Suidan and Bir-Asluj, and in the conquest of Eilat. In all the battles he excelled in his courage, energy, and initiative. He was very much loved by his men and commanders, who gave him their full trust. Chaim was a man of peace and labor, and even in the storm of battle he did not forget his vision and remained faithful to society and to the kibbutz. When his friends from Germany settled in Kibbutz Buchenwald (now Netzer Sireni) he joined them. He was interested in everything in the kibbutz and planned to be released from the army, even temporarily, in order to work in his kibbutz. He spent his days in the kibbutz, among his friends, and felt at home. In May 1949 Hayim was transferred to the Eighth Battalion, and shortly thereafter was assigned to serve as a force commander in the Eilat Mountains. On the 19th of Tammuz 5709 (19.7.1949) he boarded a light military plane at the airport in Eilat and went on a tour to get to know the surroundings better. Shortly after take-off, the plane crashed and crashed in the area of Wadi Jirpai (now the Grofit River, north of Eilat). In the crash, the two people on board the plane, Chaim and pilot Eliezer Feder, were killed. Chaim was twenty-two years old when he fell. Was brought to rest in the cemetery in his kibbutz, Netzer Sireni. On the 30th anniversary of Chaim’s death, his kibbutz issued a pamphlet in his memory. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
