Mazon, Chaim
Son of-Batya (Bolisu) and Yehoshua. He was born in 1913 in Silvarya, Turkey. When he was ten years old, he immigrated to Eretz Israel with his family, which was Zionist and aspired to settle in Israel. They settled in Petah Tikva, and Haim completed his studies at the Netzach Yisrael school in the city. He paid for the carpentry profession and worked for furniture. When he was twenty-three he married his girlfriend Rebecca. Since the economic situation in Israel was difficult, Haim chose to engage in trade in the market and saw a blessing in his labor. About a year after their marriage they had a firstborn son, Yehoshua, who was very Simcha at their place. At that time Chaim volunteered and took part in military training conducted by the underground in order to train the young people of the country to fight for the establishment of the state. On November 22, 1940, he volunteered for the British Army and was attached to a battalion that trained in the Sarafand camp. Every Saturday he would come to his house and spend his short vacation with his wife and son. Five weeks after he was drafted, he came on a four-day vacation that was his last vacation. The battalion where he served was transferred to Tobruk in Libya. Where the soldiers were loaded onto a ship escorted by another ship and loaded with 2000 barrels of fuel. One morning on Saturday, February 8, 1941, at 8:00 am, an enemy aircraft bombed both ships and the fuel barrels exploded and flared up. Many soldiers jumped into the water in the hope of being saved, but all perished by drowning or by burning fire. The ship was split in two and those who did not jumped, remained alive. Chaim perished in the heavy disaster. Four days after the bombing, two soldiers from his unit volunteered to search for him and found his body. He was brought to rest in the cemetery in Tobruk, which was established with the burial of the fallen of the ship. A rabbi from the Benghazi community said Kaddish about him at his funeral. He left a wife, a boy and a girl, born a month after his death. Her name was called Chaya in memory of her father. His name was immortalized in Yad Labanim in Petach Tikva on a monument erected in memory of the city’s residents, the victims of World War II, and in the book “The Conquerors and Builders” and in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute. In a study carried out in 2017 it was found that his resting place was in Tobruk, Libya. Location Grave 3A5 Age 28 Rank Pioneer.
