Goller, Shmuel

He was born in 1913 in the town of Zupiowka, in the Volhynia district of Russia. He studied at the Dwinsk Yeshiva in Latvia and in 1937 immigrated to Eretz Israel. In Israel, he joined Poalei Agudat Israel, studied at the “Kuzari” yeshiva, worked in the Shemen factory in Haifa and was a member of the Hagana organization. During the riots of 1936-1939, he enlisted in the Nutrim corps. On April 16, 1939, he accompanied workers to work in the Syndicate for pipes in Haifa and near the entrance to the warehouse were attacked by gunfire. Shmuel was seriously wounded and died of his wounds half an hour later. He left a wife, a child and a mother. The booklet “Tifin” of the “Shemen” workers was written in memory and its name was also immortalized in the memorial booklet of the “ransom of the Yishuv” and in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute.