Meirheim, Hanan

He was born on February 16, 1915 in Germany, and in the early 1930s he immigrated to Eretz Israel and began working in the orchard in Ein Harod, where his friends from the kibbutz told him that he was healthy and strong and had the will to adapt to work, society and life. Despite the harsh conditions and periods of loneliness that brought peace and security around him. In 1942 he enlisted in the British Army, Unit 870 for mechanical equipment of the Engineering Corps. In the army he was known among his friends as a modest, level-headed, introverted man, but always willing to help others. On the 12th of Tevet (8.1.1944) during his service in Syria, he was killed in a car accident and was buried at a military ceremony in the military cemetery in the city of Aleppo. In his eulogies, one of his friends said: “Modest, as I knew him, serious, always serious about work, responsible for his actions, proud of being a Hebrew soldier, proud of being a member of the economy. He was uprooted from us, young, fresh, we will no longer see him. In the “Soldiers’ Forest” a hundred trees were planted in his name; Kibbutz Ein Harod published a pamphlet in his memory.