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An original photograph of Israel's hero Dov Gruner, God will avenge his blood, at a demonstration of Odim shaded by fire in Frankfurt, Germany 1947 - a historical photograph! This may be the last photograph of his life! The photograph that tells his wonderful story! RRR - background Gruner was born on December 6, 1912 in Hungary, to a family of rabbis. His father was a military rabbi in World War I, captured by the Russians and died in captivity. Ten years later his mother also died, and he grew up in his grandparents' house. Studied in yeshiva and then studied engineering with honors. He was a central activist in the Beitar movement. He was involved in the ideological aspect, and educated young people to Zionism. In 1939, at the age of 27, he invested all his energy in organizing a large immigration group from among his movement, and with it he immigrated to Israel in 1940. The ship, with its 2,385 passengers, was seized by The British and they were detained in the Atlit detention camp. He was released from detention after six months and after a long hunger strike. Joined the Etzel organization. During World War II, he enlisted in the British Army in an infantry company. He served there for five years. In his service he showed dedication and courage. At the end of the war he was among the activists in providing help to the remains of the extermination camps. When he became aware of the magnitude of the tragedy and the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust, he devoted himself entirely to helping the Jewish survivors, and even gave them his shoes and clothes!! In one of his letters he wrote ”This is how one less Jew goes barefoot.” At the end of his service, and even before he was officially discharged, in 1946, he returned to the ranks of the Etzel, participated in an Etzel attack near Netanya and immediately after that in an attack on the Ramat Gan police, was wounded, and captured by the British. At the beginning of his trial, he read his statement, his sublime words about the go-d of Israel, the people of Israel and the Land of Israel: ”I do not recognize their authority to judge me. This court is deprived of any legal foundation, since it was appointed by a government, which has no legal foundation. You came to the Land of Israel based on a commitment you received from all the nations of the world, to correct the greatest injustice in the history of mankind caused by some that it is a nation. The injustice of expelling Israel from its land and making it a global victim of relentless persecution and slaughter. This commitment, and only this commitment, was the legal and moral basis for your creation in this land. But you broke it with the malice of your heart. With brutal force and devilish trickery... because it is known It's good for you, that the plundering of this land and the locking of its gates, is like a constant bloody assassination of the lives of millions of people, women and children of my people. And yet, or rather because of that, you ended up turning the land into your military base... and robbing it from the people, which is not He has more land in the world than this one, which was given to him by God and history... but you made a mockery of... God's promise, just as you proudly trampled on the international contract you signed with our people and the nations of the world.” When the death sentence was read, he rose to his feet and announced in Hebrew: ”In blood and fire Judah has fallen - in blood and fire Judah will rise!” This call originates from the line of the chorus in the poem of the Jewish poet Yaakov Cohen as a response to the Chisinau riots, which also became the slogan of the organization for the protection of the Jewish settlement ”Hashomer”. Regarding the character of Gruner, his close acquaintances described him: ”He was a noble, moral and good man, who was willing to sacrifice everything - his property and his life - for others” ”I was dumbfounded when I noticed such a great degree of tenderness in his heart A Jew who suffered at the hands of the Nazis in the most difficult systems in which the British Army participated. He was an idealist who harbored no enmity, a fighter without bitterness, a person whose sharp sensitivity was subject to the rule of reason and reason.” he photo before us was taken during his days in the displaced persons camps in Europe when he gave his life as a simple matter for the survivors of the Holocaust. In the picture we see a demonstration of the survivors in favor of moving to Israel, with Dov Gruner among them. In his life and in his death he commanded us life! מצב: טוב רקע גרונר נולד ב-6 בדצמבר 1912 (כ”ו בכסלו ה'תרע”ג) בהונגריה. לשושלת רבנים. אביו היה רב צבאי במלחמת העולם הראשונה, נשבה על ידי הרוסים ומת בשבי. כעבור עשר שנים מתה גם אמו, והוא גדל בבית סבו וסבתו. למד בישיבה ולאחר מכן למד הנדסה בהצטיינות. היה פעיל מרכזי בתנועת בית”ר. עסק בפן האידאולוגי, וחינך צעירים לציונות. בשנת 1939, בגיל 27,