Shmuel, the son of Rivka (to the Hochbaum family) and Moshe, was born in 1927 in Poland, in the city of Vishogrod, on the banks of the Vistula River, to a large and famous family in which one of the houses in which the Zionist leader Nachum Sokolow, As a member of a Zionist family he studied at the “Tarbut” school, with the intention of immigrating to Eretz Israel when he grew up, and was captured by the Germans on September 9, 1939, a week From the beginning of World War II, immediately after the murder of Jews and their deportation to labor camps, and Shmulik, a 12-year-old boy, found himself in the ghetto Warsaw, where some members of the younger generation lost their families, who perished in the Treblinka camp, and Shmulik and the rest of his family were sent to Auschwitz in 1942. His parents, grandparents and brothers were sent to the gas chambers and murdered before his eyes. A few days before the liquidation of the concentration camp in Auschwitz, Shmulik and his aunt, the two remaining members of the family, managed to escape and, under the open sky, swore to each other that they would never separate. “We will always be together, I will be his mother and he will be white to me, if death does not separate us,” so that his aunt returned. Shmulik vowed that as soon as he was released he would immigrate to the State of Israel, and would do everything in his power to bring her up as well. But the Nazis caught up with Shmulik and separated him from his aunt. Together with other Jewish boys he was taken to one of the camps in Germany, where they were assigned to various occupations. He was sent to a boarding school and acquired the skills of the profession. In the camp he strengthened the spirit of his comrades and served them as a stronghold and consolation. He taught them Hebrew, sang Zionist songs and told them about the Land of Israel, from which he was absorbed in his home and in his school. Shmulik spoke to the Lev of his friends that they would diligently study the work, because they would come to Israel one day. At that time he also maintained contacts with the underground. In 1945, with the beginning of the collapse of Nazi Germany, Shmulik headed a youth group and organized an escape from the camp. Through the forests they spent nights and nights in frost and snow until they reached the American lines. The American occupation authorities offered him permission to travel to his relatives in America, but he refused. Shmulik searched for and found the emissaries of the Jewish Brigade, and with their help he arrived with his friends in Italy. Where they joined one of the Zionist pioneering training communes (kibbutzei hachshara), headed for Palestine. On January 9, 1946, a group of members boarded the illegal immigrant ship Enzo Sereni. The ship, organized by the Haganah’s Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet, sailed from the port of Vado-Ligure, Italy, carrying 908 Ma’apilim, mostly young members of various youth movements. The conditions of the voyage were harsh and the passengers suffered greatly. Near the shores of the country, “Enzo Sereni” was discovered by the destroyers of the British Royal Navy. This was the first ship of illegal immigrants seized by the British after World War II. The sailors took over the ship and forced it to enter the port of Haifa, from where the immigrants were taken to the detention camp at Atlit. Upon his release from Atlit, Shmulik arrived in Tel Aviv. Here the Dov Silberman family adopted him, but he sought to fulfill his pioneering aspirations and moved to the Avuka group, which settled in the Beit She’an Valley. For a while he worked as a construction worker until he had an accident and returned to Tel Aviv. In the city he immediately joined the Haganah and devoted himself to his activities there, to the point of neglecting his work. He was Simcha that he had won, as the sole descendant of a large family, to begin his life anew in the land he had longed for. In January 1948, shortly after the outbreak of the War of Independence, Shmulik was among the first to volunteer to join the defensive forces, saying “It is better to die as a Jewish soldier than to burn in a furnace. “After a month of training, he demanded to move to one of the combat units, and was joined to the Givati Brigade, the 5th Brigade in the Hagana. In March 1948, the 53rd Battalion was lowered to the south and placed on the front line along the Megedal-Faluja road, Until the Egyptian invasion, the fighters of the battalion defended the Jewish settlements in their sector, escorted convoys to the Negev, and conquered several Arab villages, and Shmulik, who served as a machine gunner, With his battalion in all the operations of the brigade.In July 1948, Shmulik took part in the first attempt to conquer Iraq al-Manshiya.Al-Manshiyya was an Arab village located next to an ancient tell (now Tel Irani, near Kiryat Gat) (Now Beit Guvrin), with the aim of connecting the axis of their invasion of the coastal plain with their forces in the Hebron Hills, and the Egyptian fortification system that established across the northern Negev, including large artillery, armor and infantry units, Severed the Negev from the nascent State of Israel and endangered the Jewish settlements in the area. Thus, several attempts were made to capture Iraq al-Manshiyya, the first of which the IDF initiated during the second truce, where the operation was composed of the first letters of the three infantry brigades that participated in it: Givati, Yiftah, (Which belonged to the Palmach’s Negev Brigade), and was intended to break through to the isolated Negev, after the break-up of the crossing that broke out earlier, during which the Egyptians blocked the Tel Iraq al-Manshiyya Brigade, On the night of the 27th of Tammuz 5707 (27.7.1948), the fighters of Battalion 53 of Kibbutz Gat went out and stormed the Egyptian compound, but the Egyptians, who discovered their intention, responded with intense fire and many of the fighters were injured. Alik, willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of the community, reached the barbed wire fence of the village and Haifa on the retreat, and in the heat of the battle a machine gun stopped and he decided to fix it, no matter what. The road to the besieged Negev was breached later in October 1948 during the “Yoav” operation, when the Egyptian forces were encircled in the “Faluja pocket” until the end of the war. 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.
