Lax, Meir

Son of Sarah and Nehemiah. Born in Sosnowiec, Poland, on January 3, 1914, he was brought to the United States with his family and settled in Minneapolis, where Meir studied at a Talmud Torah school and later attended a high school in the city. He joined the Habonim youth movement when he reached the age of 18. He joined the Habonim youth movement near Minneapolis, where he met Anna, who was to become his wife. He made aliya in 1935. In the 1936-1939 riots, when a danger was posed to the passengers on the roads, he did not leave the steering wheel and was once wounded by shots fired by Arabs. On 18 Tamuz, July 24, 1940, he went to Haifa to bring fuel to the kibbutz. In an air force bombing, he was wounded and killed. He was laid to rest in the Afikim cemeter. He left a wife and daughter in Israel, parents and two brothers in Chicago, and his memoirs were published in the book “Afikim Half Jubilee”.