Philo (Bilu), Shimon

Son of Zahava and Yitzhak. Born in 1900 in Salonika, Greece, where he attended Alliance schools, first in elementary school and later in high school. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933 without his family, and later immigrated to Israel with his wife and four children, when he worked in Israel as a construction contractor and worked hard to support his large family. After the outbreak of World War II, he joined the British army and joined the British Army, where he was drafted into the “Engineering Corps” unit, sent to Greece, where he was captured by the enemy. A group of prisoners to escape from the captivity and Shimon in. From then on his story is shrouded in a fog, according to one version, Shimon was shot Was killed in the attempted escape from captivity, another version says that he managed to escape the captivity and rejoined his unit in the direction of Cretan and was killed in action in Crete, On the Ramat Gan police. An investigation conducted in 2017 found that the date of his death was April 1, 1942. Place of commemoration cATHENScMEMORIALc in Athens, Greece. Score a tomb location cFacec4 Age 44 Rank cSapper. The space is a machete – a space whose burial place is unknown