fbpx
Sapir, Elchanan (Henryk)

Sapir, Elchanan (Henryk)


Son of Reizel and Abraham. Born in 1896 in Jasło, Poland, he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933. He was an engineer by profession, Elhanan joined the ranks of the Haganah and in 1938 enlisted as a policeman and worked in the area of ​​Haifa, his city of residence. (20.12.1938) was on guard duty with another guard in Hadar Hacarmel, near Wadi Salib, where four Arabs approached and fired at them from close range, and Elhanan was mortally wounded and rushed to Hadassah Hospital where he died of his wounds. , A daughter and two sons, his name was immortalized in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the book “

Skip to content