Pipek, Chaim

Son of-Nehama and Gutman was born on May 15, 1925 in the city of Ostrowitz, Poland. He studied at the Charedim elementary school and at the age of 14, he was appalled by the horrors of World War II. Chaim went through all the trials and tribulations with his brothers in the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps and other camps in Germany and Austria. After the liberation, when they found their home town destroyed and their family did not survive, he lamented his great lamentation in Yiddish folk rhymes and went with his brothers on the Bericha route to Italy and from there boarded a ship on the Wedgwood. Two days after arriving in Israel, they descended on the “black Sabbath” settlement (June 29, 1946) and the days of search and siege. But his faith was in a better future and did not fall in his spirit. He worked as a laborer and tried to forget the nightmares of the past and was a good and cheerful friend, ready to benefit others. On March 1, 1948, he enlisted and served in the Givati ​​Brigade. Haim participated in escorting convoys to the Negev, in the defense of Negba, in the battles of Beit Daras, Mghar, in the attacks on the Iraq-Suidan Police, and on one of the outposts in the Ashdod sector, in Julis and in the breakthrough to the Negev, in attacks on the Cretan strongholds Givat Ya’akov, the conquest of Beit Guvrin and the purge of the Iraqi-Suweidan police posts. After that, his company went out to clean up the surrounding area in the mountains of Hebron from the enemy. After a successful punitive action in the village of Sika, the company was attacked with fire, and when Chaim wanted to put the machine gun into action, he struck a bullet in his Lev on the 2nd of December 1948. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Warburg.