Dembowski, Shlomo

Son of Tovah and Yitzhak. He was born in 1918 in Poland and in 1921 immigrated with his parents to Eretz Israel. The family settled in Tiberias, where he graduated from elementary school. Afterward, he moved to Haifa where he continued his studies in the evenings. During the day he worked for a living. At the age of sixteen, he enlisted in the Hagana organization and a year later he was appointed a guide. During the bloody riots of 1936-1937 he was a guard. In 1942 he accepted the call of the institutions of the Jewish Yishuv and enlisted to serve in the British Army, as part of the Engineering Corps (R.E.M.E). On April 10, 1946, while he was in military service and fulfilling his duties, he was killed in a car accident in Egypt and brought to burial on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, leaving a wife, three brothers and a sister.