Yechiel Meir Pieniek

Yechiel Meir was born in December 1895. He had a brother and two sisters, named Avraham, ? and <Unknown>. Yechiel Meir is no longer alive.

General Notes
- Left Radzymin in 1914 to Palestine, via Warsaw and Odessa.
  Arrived in Degania. 1919 served 10 months in "Gendarmes", a Jewish-Arab Police force in Jerusalem. Returned to Kibbutz Kinneret, then worked for a number of years paving roads in the north. Returned to Jerusalem and worked building houses for 12 years . In 1935 visits Radzymin for 4 months. Returns to agriculture in Bet Yosef. By this time he is already married with 2 children. There he lives 6 1/2 years, and then moves to Sde Nachum. In 1956 arrives in Kibbutz Hasharon, which became Kibbutz Yifat. Source: interview in Sefer Zikaron of Radzymin, page 225.