Buchbinder, Shlomo

Shlomo was born in 1931 in France, to parents born in Poland, raised and educated in his hometown On June 22, 1940, ten months after the beginning of World War II, France surrendered to the Germans, and the country was divided into two parts: The Vichy government was French, but it was a puppet government operated by the Germans and, as such, openly anti-Semitic.The administration violated the rights of the refugees and Jews and imprisoned them in detention camps in the south of the country. In the north, where the Germans were in control, the persecution of the Jews intensified, and the underground movement, the “Makki” Against the Germans in the countryside. About 75,000 French Jews, almost a quarter of all the Jews who lived in the country on the eve of the war, were exterminated in the Holocaust, not least because of the cooperation of the Vichy people. Little is known about the history of Shlomo’s family during World War II, and even the names of the parents are unknown. Both of them are known to have been taken to a concentration camp where they perished. After the parents were taken, their son was sent to a children’s institution in France and stayed there until the end of the war. Shortly after the war, in 1946, a group of young men and women from France arrived in Palestine as part of the Youth Aliyah. They were sent to the youth group at Kibbutz Degania Bet, where they stayed for two years, learned Hebrew, were educated and worked. The kibbutz members used to call them “the Swedes,” since some of the youth were sent to Sweden for recovery and from there came to Israel. Since then, Shlomo has been a member of a book that dealt with theater and was interested in the art of acting. In his free time he even wrote poetry. In the middle of 1948, Shlomo and his comrades were sent to Kibbutz Gevim in the south (south of Sderot), a year old kibbutz that was under Arab attack since the beginning of the War of Independence. On October 19, 1948, a day after Beer Sheva, which was the base of the invading Egyptian army, was liberated on the 22nd of Tishrei, Shlomo and another member of his kibbutz traveled to the liberated city. Shortly after arriving, the two men were hit by an Egyptian air strike. Shlomo’s friend, Asher Hershkovitz, was killed on the spot. Shlomo was mortally wounded. He was transferred to Kibbutz Ruhama but shortly afterwards died of his wounds. Shlomo was seventeen years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the cemetery of Kibbutz Gevim. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.