Wagner, Chaim

Son of Margarit and Martin, was born in 1922 in Berlin, the capital of Germany. In his city, he finished elementary school and later studied shoemaking. In 1939 he came to Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah, and was educated in Be’er Tuvia and later moved to Kfar Haim. In 1941, he served as a police officer at the David Brigade and after his discharge worked in Badmut. Haim was active in the Haganah and completed a course in combat brigades in 1946. In 1946 he married and settled in Kiryat Haim, where he worked in shoemaking, and served in the Carmeli Brigade in January 1948. He participated in activities in the Western Galilee, On 27 March 1948, a caravan of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya in order to transfer supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yiham, and the caravan encountered an ambush by the Arabs near Kabri. The convoy was ambushed until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but about half of them fell in battle and Chaim among them. His remains were laid to rest in the graveyard-military Nahariya.