Shamir (Schweitzer), Zvi

Son of-Eliezer and Dora. He was born on August 26, 1933, in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, after graduating from four high school classes, where he studied in an agricultural school and acquired his love and closeness to nature while he was still a small child. At the foot of the mountains and in the vicinity of the river, even as he entered first grade, the boy felt Jewish, the majority of his schoolmates from the German buildings and the mobs affected by rising Nazism. 1944, the Holocaust year for the Hungarian Jews, the boy passed through the house of Christian acquaintances who gave shelter to the family.After the arrival of the liberating Soviet army, the boy found his way to the Naval Movement In 1946 he joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement and lived in the movement’s house and training farm.In 1949, when all the Zionist activities in Hungary were liquidated, Zwi also arrived in Israel, first in Negba and then in the youth company in Hatzor, He joined the Nahal youth movement in July 1951. Kibbutz Dvir, to which he belonged, was established immediately after the end of the basic training period and Zvi was elected commander of the region. Together with this role of handling the defense affairs of a single settlement near the hostile border, he worked in the field of agriculture. In 1953 he was sent to an officers’ course which he successfully completed. In the last two years of his life, he devoted himself to the activities of his Bedouin neighbors, because as a field guard he spent most of his working hours with them. For more than two years he acted as a mukhtar. On the very day when he was about to end his term as the liaison between the kibbutz and the Arab neighbors, the death decided: On the day of the 27th of Nissan 5707 (April 8, 1956), in the course of his duties, he fell in the vicinity of his kibbutz. He was laid to rest in the kibbutz cemetery. After his death he was promoted to lieutenant. He left a wife and a child. On the first anniversary of his death, his friends on the kibbutz took out pages in his memory.