Mautner, Shlomo
Son of Anna and Victor, was born on September 13, 1925, to an affluent Zionist family in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. From an early age, he belonged to the “Maccabee” and later to the “Young Maccabee” movement. He attended elementary and high school where he excelled, and when they devoted themselves to a Hebrew course at the “Youth Aliyah” school in Prague, he served as a counselor in the movement. In 1939 he came to Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah, and stayed at his uncle’s home in Haifa and completed his studies at the Reali School. From 1941 he joined a youth group from Denmark and spent two years studying and working in agriculture in son of Shemen. Was easy to grasp and woke up to social life captive to the idea of group life and went with his girlfriend to training in Kfar Hahoresh and a work battalion in Hadera. He was one of the first members of the Gezer group, where he worked first in the field and later in other jobs. The earthwork was like a holy service. After hours of hard work he continued to study, to study art books, and to listen to music. Shlomo was devoted to security matters. Was a squad commander, and even a member of the security committee there. The most important event in his life was the mission in 1947, when he was in Cyprus for several months, and served as the main instructor in the youth village. During the War of Independence, the commander of Gezer, which was located near the Ramle-Latrun road, and the Legion forces in the area saw it as a threat and asked it to be taken in preparation for the approaching truce. On Tuesday, June 10, 1948, an enemy force, consisting of a Legion Company, organized irregular forces and armored vehicles, attacked the kibbutz, and the enemy’s heavy fire destroyed the defensive positions and paralyzed any possibility of organized resistance. In this battle, fell on Tuesday, June 10, 1948. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Gezer.
