Shalmins, Joseph

Son of Leah and Chaim, was born on December 30, 1912, in the town of Flanagan, Lithuania, during the First World War, when the father’s family died in 1919. After the disaster, She grew up in her illness until the day of her death in 1935, when Yosef was already in Eretz Israel, and his childhood was a difficult one and passed through a serious atmosphere and mutual concern between the boys who helped each other in their studies. On April 3, 1933, he immigrated to Israel and was unable to see his family, all of whom perished during the Second World War, and when he arrived in Israel, he joined the “Hashomer Hatzair” The grouping “young guard” in Netanya. While in Netanya participated in reducing illegal immigrants to shore, Nasser, and sat for several months in prison in Tulkarm. In Trtz”t founded with his Kibbutz Amir Galilee. In the farm he worked in various jobs and recently worked regularly in the aquaculture industry, which was one of his pioneers. At the beginning of the War of Independence he fell on the security of the transport, on the way to Amir, on the 28th of Shevat 5708 (February 8, 1948). He left a wife and two children. The kibbutz issued a memorial booklet in his name: Yosef