Simmons, Chaim

Son of Margherita and Karl, was born on April 13, 1919 in Berlin, the capital of Germany. He attended high school and took part in the framing. In 1937 he went to a Zionist pioneering training program in Yugoslavia, and from there, in 1938, to a pioneering training program (hachshara) in the Netherlands. From the Netherlands he boarded the ship “Dora” in August 1939. In 1941 he volunteered for the British Army (“Bafs”). He later served in the First Battalion of the Jewish Brigade and took part in the last battles to defeat the German force. After his discharge from the British army, he returned to Israel, worked in frameworks, married and settled in Ra’anana. During the War of Independence he came to the defense of the homeland, served in the Carmeli Brigade and was sent with his platoon as reinforcements to the Sejera. On Tuesday, 10 June 1948, Kaukji forces carried out a heavy attack on our forces in Sejera, despite the fact that the first truce had already come into force, and our forces managed to repel the attack. Military cemetery in Afula.