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Nudelman, Shmuel

Nudelman, Shmuel


Shmuel, son of Lea (nee Wintrupov) and Eliahu, was born on 19.4.1929 in Poland, in the city of Bedzin, in the Kielce district, and attended an elementary school in his city. In September 1939, the Germans entered the city after they occupied Poland in a lightning operation, and immediately began a series of acts of abuse and murder against the Jewish inhabitants, many of whom were sent to forced labor camps throughout the German Reich, Of “resettlement.” Attempts by the Jewish underground to resist the deportations and defend against the Nazis failed In Bedzin, a ghetto, which was finally liquidated in August 1943, almost all the Jews of Bedzin were exterminated.In the war three million Polish Jews perished, about 90 percent of the Jews who lived in the country on the eve of the war. Was sent to a concentration camp in Germany and later to the Buchenwald camp Buchenwald camp near Weimar was established in July 1937 and was one of the largest concentration camps in Germany: about 130 satellite camps were affiliated with it. The Jews who were incarcerated were used in forced labor in the quarry, a work that caused many casualties. Shmuel worked as a camp orderly in the camp, and as a member of the Jewish underground, he smuggled arms to defend himself. As soon as the war ended, in 1945, Shmuel boarded an illegal immigrant ship. Here he was a member of the Youth Aliya in Jerusalem and at the son of Shemen Youth Village, where he studied in frameworks. After finishing school he moved to Tel Aviv and worked in the city as a locksmith. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, following the United Nations General Assembly resolution on November 29, Shmuel was recruited to the Palmach Palmach, the 11th Brigade of the Haganah, and devoted himself to training, Who was sent to Ramot Naftali in the Upper Galilee, and was sent to reinforce Manara (Kibbutz Manara), which was situated alone in the heights of the Naftali Mountains , Had been under siege and battle since the beginning of the war, and all his fellow soldiers were recruited in his defense, joined by Palmach fighters. Securing convoy convoys to the kibbutz was one of the main tasks of the fighters. On February 26, 1948, the Arabs attacked a convoy carrying equipment from Ramot Naftali to Menara. In the ensuing battle, two of the convoy’s escorts were killed, among them Shmuel. He is nineteen years old when he falls. Shmuel was brought to rest in the cemetery in Manara. His grave, next to the grave of a Manara member who was killed with him, were the first graves of the victims of the War of Independence in the kibbutz. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.

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