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Marmor, Shlomo

Marmor, Shlomo


Son of Haya-Yente and Nachman was born on September 26, 1928 in the city of Vishau, Romania, and attended elementary school. As a young boy, the Second World War broke out and he was transferred to various concentration camps and on several occasions he was on the brink of death. From his youth he aspired to immigrate to Israel. When he parted from his mother in the extermination camp, she blessed him that he would merit to immigrate to Israel and to see the redemption of the people. After the war he immigrated to Israel in 1947 from Bergen-Belsen. His first wish was to join the Haganah. “I did not come for business,” he told his brother, “but to participate in the liberation of the homeland.” When he received the blessing “Shehecheyanu” for this right. Shlomo joined as a member of Hapoel Hamizrachi. When the draft was issued to his contemporaries, he was one of the first to report. He was not yet organized, but he preferred the good of the homeland to his private affairs and was proud that he, the remnant of the death camps, had joined the fighters. Shlomo served in a battalion in the Alexandroni Brigade. Knew how to be responsible, and was loved by his acquaintances for his honesty and exemplary behavior. In early December 1948 he was transferred to the Negev. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation operation” was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle he fell on the 28th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948). He was buried in Faluja. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.

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