Krupinski, Nathan

Son of Ita-Lea and Shmuel, was born in 1905 in the city of Vysoko-Mazowieck in northern Poland. In his home he received a national education and grew up in the Zionist tradition of his father’s house and was one of the leaders of the activists for the national foundations. For a living he worked as a furrier and as a hatter. At the beginning of the Second World War he served in the Polish army and fought on the fronts against the German invaders from the west and the Russians from the east. When the Polish resistance ceased, all the Jews were brought into the ghetto. He managed to get his parents and his wife and child out of there, but they were caught on the way and brought to Auschwitz for extermination. He himself remained in the ghetto to save more souls and at the last minute managed to escape from his comrades and took advantage of the shots fired by the Germans. For about two years he lived in the forests until the Russian army arrived, to which he joined and fought in his ranks. After the liberation he was active in the Ichud party, helping the survivors and representing the survivors of his town in the Bialystok District Committee. While he was busy helping others, he postponed his immigration to Israel for a later date, and when he immigrated to Israel on the plane on December 2, 1947, he found the Yishuv in the midst of the War of Independence. At first he lived in the home of his married sister in Givatayim, where he immediately joined the Civil Guard and took part in the defense of the place. When he went to visit his second sister in Haifa, he was attacked in an Arab attack on the transport in Wadi Nisnas, and fell on the 3rd of Adar 2, 5708 (March 14, 1948), and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.