Shneiderman, Chaim

He was born in 1923 in Lodz, Poland and completed elementary school. His many talents and energies greatly overshadowed the lack of formal education and he had worked his way through life. When the Second World War broke out, he was outside his parents’ house, and their paths were separated. They were imprisoned in the ghetto and perished in it and he was swept away by the flow of refugees to the east, and with great labor and suffering he spent the war years in the Soviet Union. When he returned to Poland and discovered that no member of his family had survived, he continued on his route to the west. In Germany, he joined the “Dror” kibbutz in Wohlstadt, and with his cleverness and quick grasp, he became a member of the secretariat. From there he moved to Italy and immigrated to Israel on the ship “Heroes of Gesher HaZiv”. The ship was caught and its passengers were transferred to Cyprus. Where he joined the Haganah, took a course for counselors and was active in training. Haim participated in digging the tunnel hidden from the camp and on a rainy night in December 1947, after the battles began in Israel, also disappeared and in March 1948 came by boat fishing to the country. Upon his arrival, Haim was drafted into the Palmach, served in the Harel Brigade and participated in mountain operations on the way to Jerusalem, was wounded in Operation Maccabi near Kiryat Anavim and two days later died of his wounds at the Jerusalem Hospital on 28.5.1948. He was buried in Sheikh Bader on September 3, 1950, and was transferred to the cemetery in Givat Shaul.