Marysin, Ze’ev (Volodya)

Ze’ev, son of Aliza and Dov Marysin, was born in the city of Novorossiysk, Crimea, Russia in 1911, and in May 1924 he immigrated to Israel with his father, brother and sister. The family settled in Haifa. He was a member of the Hagana since 1934 and served in various places in Israel and was very fond of his work and Haganah colleagues. In the winter of 1948, when the War of Independence broke out and the road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The movement was allowed to mount convoys secured by the British army. The convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs hurled heavy fire at it, and some of the vehicles managed to get out and return, but two buses, an ambulance and a armored escort were ambushed. Ze’ev was among the fallen (13.4.1948) and was brought to eternal rest in a grave in the Sanhedria cemetery in Jerusalem.