Shapira, Haim-Baruch

Son of Sima (Sabna) and Avraham Aharon, was born on December 16, 1919 in Czortkow, Poland. His father was a well-known and virtuous scholar, one of the first activists of the Mizrachi movement in Galicia. In his youth, Haim-Baruch finished seven elementary school classes and studied in the room. In June 1935 he immigrated to Israel with his parents who settled in Haifa. Here he joined Bnei Akiva and was a loyal member of this movement. As a young boy he began to work as a painter to help the family. With his father’s illness and the death of his sister, who was a member of the Kiryat Anavim group, the family moved to Kiryat Anavim. Haim devoted himself to working in the group. Where both his father and his mother had died. He joined the Kfar Etzion group in 1944. He was a guard at the Jewish settlements police and was responsible for arms and ammunition at the local Notarim station, and despite his asthma, he devoted himself to work and to the building of the group. , Who was in charge of weapons at the Notarim station, who took care of weapons with dedication and responsibility and took part in the guard, while in the last attack he was in the position and operated in the eastern part of the village. He fell near the building of the German monastery in the center of the village on Wednesday, May 13, 1948. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) he was transferred to the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem with the rest of the victims of the Gush.