Lipschitz, Meir (Meirl)

Son of-Rivka-Reizel and Menachem Mendel, was born on March 23, 1962, in the town of Staszow, Poland, where he was educated in traditional education and in the spirit of Zionism towards a pioneering achievement. He completed his elementary school and was about to make aliya to the son of Shemen Youth Village, but when he was in Vilna for the purpose of training, World War II broke out and he was forced to return to his parents’ home, where he volunteered for hard labor with the Germans instead of his father and brothers. Only the hope to immigrate to Eretz Israel strengthened his spirits in all the hardships he had endured: he wandered from one concentration camp to the next: in Poland (Skzik) and Germany (Buchenwald, Schloin, Theresienstadt). Ramnia met with his brother who came from Israel with the Jewish Brigade and helped him immigrate to Eretz Israel on the ship “Tel Hai” on March 28, 1946. After spending two weeks in the Atlit detention camp he went to the Massada group and from there to Kibbutz Kfar Hahoresh. He was a member of the Hagana, and in early 1948 he joined and served in one of the battalions of the Haganah, In the Carmeli Brigade. Remained one of the six children of the family (a sister and three brothers were murdered by the Nazis, and another brother, Isaac, fell in Ramot Naftali), but his father did not release him because he was an only child. Meir participated in the conquest of Haifa and Acre and from there was sent to the Upper Galilee to help the besieged settlements and reached the place where his brother fell. On the 3rd of Sivan 5708 (10.6.1948), the day before the beginning of the first truce, he fell in the battle of Ramot Naftali and was brought to rest in the Ramot Naftali cemetery near the grave of his brother Isaac, who fell four weeks before him.