Metz, Shlomo (Shlamak)
The only son of Miriam and Zvi-Hirsch was born on October 13, 1922, in the city of Bedzin, Poland. During his years in high school he was active in the Zionist youth movement until the Nazi invasion of Poland, at the beginning of the Second World War, put an end to Zionist studies and activities. He was interned in the Auschwitz, Dachau, Flonsburg, Lauenburg, and Mildorf camps, but he could not deny the Jewish image of the Nazis. After the victory over Germany and the liberation from the camps, he worked for the Likud of She’erit Hapleitah in Kreiburg in Upper Bavaria, and despite his youth he was elected president of the community and worked hard to improve the situation of the displaced. When the leadership of the community was placed on a solid foundation, he left his chair and went to study in the city of Weiden, where he completed his matriculation exams and later studied chemistry and medicine in Regensburg, and according to the certificates he received he progressed well in his studies and exercises. When he learned that the Jewish homeland was in danger of being attacked from all directions, he abandoned his studies and his father, found contact with Hagana emissaries and after short training in Germany and France, arrived in Israel in June 1948. He completed an officer’s course, And participated in all the battles: During the Operation Yoav, the battalion attacked the Egyptian forces in Iraq, and the force attacked the enemy, and was forced to withdraw, which fell on October 16, 1948. On the 29th of Tishrei 5710 (29.9.1949), he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.
