Zeiderman, Chaim

Son of Feiga and Benjamin (among them), was born on September 23, 1929, in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. There he spent his youth. Haim completed six elementary and two high school classes. Upon the Nazi occupation of Belgium he entered the monastery and lived there until the liberation. When the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade returned to Judaism, he stayed in a children’s home and joined the “Pioneer” Zionist pioneering training program “Merkin”, where he worked until his arrival on July 31, 1946 on the “Jewish Soldier” ship. A few weeks later, he joined the “Aliyat Hanoar” company in Kibbutz Beerot Yitzhak in the Negev. During the two years he spent there, he filled the quota of work and study with training in the framework of the Palmach, and despite his years of suffering and later a gray kibbutz life, he remained a boy, isolated and delirious and floating in the world of beauty and art. In the early days of the War of Independence, he was sent by the kibbutz to be drafted into the Imara police station, where he remained until he was wounded in a minefield. (July 15, 1948), during an Egyptian attack, when a bomb destroyed his position. He was buried in the wells of Isaac. On the 20th of Cheshvan 5711 (31.10.1950) he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.