Shane, Abraham

Born in 1920 in the town of Dzhalushin, Poland. He studied in an elementary school and belonged to a Zionist religious youth movement. With the outbreak of the Second World War he was cut off from his family and moved to ghettos and concentration camps. At the end of the war he searched for his family – but he did not find them. He came to Kibbutz Poalei Agudat Israel and together with his friends immigrated to Israel on the refugee ship La Spezia in 1946. In the country he first joined one of the agricultural farms of his movement and soon left him and worked in shoemaking, in Tel Aviv. At the beginning of the War of Independence, he enlisted in the Negev Brigade of the Palmach and carried with it the battles of the besieged Negev, which was held by the Julikat strongholds during the first truce, and the Egyptians surprised and attacked the outpost 24 hours before the end of the truce, (8.7.1948). On Sunday, July 5, 1951, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.