Rapelowicz, Arieh

The youngest son of Tzipora and Shlomo. Aryeh was born in the city of Hamilnik in Russia in 1924. His father was an officer of the Russian army during Czar Nikolai’s time, and his father took the family and moved with his wife and children to Poland. The Polish People’s Book, his father died, his mother was ill and Aryeh was only a tender child when the burden of his family’s livelihood fell upon him, but Aryeh continued to study and was one of the most talented students in the school. He was deported to Czestochowa and from there to Buchenwald at the “Death March.” Arie was liberated from the Buchenwald camp by the Americans And after his release he immediately began to search for his family, and arrived in Kielce, where he met his wife Tzila A few weeks before the start of the pogrom in Kielce, the couple left the city and moved to Kibbutz Dror in Sosnowitz, Who lived in Kibbutz Ein Hahayam and Kibbutz Ein Carmel in 1949. A few years later they moved to Ramat Gan, and Aryeh was a loyal man for the people and the country, and in his home he wanted to speak only Hebrew and he said that he was with the exile . Aryeh joined the police in 1951 as a scout and researcher. On September 5, 1965, Aryeh was killed in a car accident while returning from work to his home in Ramat Gan, where he was buried at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv.