Federman, Shmuel (Herbert)

Son of Siegfried. He was born on May 3, 1921 in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and came to Mikvah-Israel to study in agriculture there. He devoted himself diligently to the field of dairy farming, and then went on to the orchards, and he also excelled in his studies and knowledge. He was a young, alert and cheerful young man, innocent and honest, with a grace always on his face. With the call to enlist at the outbreak of World War II, he was one of the first volunteers. He took this step with great enthusiasm, but his spirit was not the period of his long service in the home front, without military activity, until he was sent as a surfing instructor abroad, and he went there hoping it would be the beginning of a real military operation. He also volunteered for a raid unit and was the only Jew in his company to be liked by his friends. In his military service, he saw compensation for the suffering and humiliations inflicted on his brother in exile and with great satisfaction he wrote to his friends: “At every point we conquered, the residents rejoiced with joy and carried us on our hands.” On 25 Tishrei, October 24, 1943, he fell behind the front lines in a raid on one of the Greek islands, which Winston Churchill defined as “one of the most difficult and final Allied systems.” He was buried on the Greek island of Kos. Left parents in England. His friends published a pamphlet in his memory. He was 22 years old when he died.