Lipiner, Kalman (Carol)

Son of Chaya and Dov, was born in 1910 in the city of Jozow, Poland. He attended elementary school and later worked as a driver. During his service in the Polish Army he served as a driving instructor with the rank of First Sergeant. During the Second World War he was swept into the Russian refugee stream and sent to work in the Siberian forests. After the “pardon” of the Polish subjects, Stalin-Sikorski was allowed to come to Turkestan, enlisted in the Polish army, and in 1941 he came to Israel as a Polish soldier and left the army. He married a wife and began to become involved in the life of the country. Recently he was a guard. In the winter of 1948 he served in the guard of the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, and during his vacation home he fell ill and his temperature rose to more than 38 degrees, but despite his illness he refused to stay at home and wanted to return to his service. The convoy was attacked by an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the east of the city, Ra’eh and hundreds of Arabs fired heavy fire at it, and some of the vehicles managed to get out and return, but two buses, an ambulance and a armored vehicle were ambushed. The soldiers of the convoy fought and tried to prevent the Arabs from approaching the vehicles, which were fired from our positions in the city and Mount Scopus, as well as armored vehicles who were sent to the area, were unable to assist the convoy. To set fire to two buses on their passengers. Only late in the evening the British intervened and rescued the survivors from the trapped vehicles. Kalman was among the fallen on the 4th of Iyar 5708 (April 13, 1948.) He was laid to rest in a mass grave in the Sanhedria cemetery.