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Frelich, Shmuel (Shmulak)

Frelich, Shmuel (Shmulak)


Son of Sala and Yitzhak, was born on December 19, 1927, in Radom, Poland. He studied in a Polish school and excelled in his studies. Was far from any Jewish-Zionist education, but in the World War the general disaster also came to his family. The parents were uprooted from their homes in one of the Aktionen and their tracks were lost. The brothers dispersed in Russia. Shmuel was forced to work in forced labor, but his character was not broken but forged, and he became a Zionist. On the day of his liberation from Buchenwald he joined the Zionist pioneering movement. He was a tailor by profession and worked in training. He boarded the Latrun ship, was held in Cyprus for seven months, and when he immigrated to Israel in 1947, he joined his friends in Kibbutz Afikim. He did not have much time to integrate into the soil of the homeland and the life of the new society. The War of Independence, which broke out, approached the gates of the Jordan Valley and he and his friends were summoned to the aid of the attacked farms. From the guard post at the Sha’ar Hagolan Water Institute, he and his friends retreated from a Syrian armored attack to the gate of the kibbutz, where he fell from a sniper’s bullet on the 15th of Iyar 5708 (May 15, 1948) after the declaration of the State of Israel. .

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