Schechter, Aryeh (Layona)

He was born and raised in the city of Balchi, in Serabia, in 1920. In 1932, he joined the local branch of Hashomer Hatzair and soon became acquainted with his new friends. In 1937, he embarked on a training program in Baku before immigrating to Eretz Israel, and in 1939 he immigrated to Eretz Israel as an immigrant on the ship Tiger Hill, which arrived on September 1 at the shore of Tel-Aviv. He joined Kibbutz Shamir in the Upper Galilee where he was hired and began to work and contribute to the development of the agriculture, and after the outbreak of World War II he volunteered for the British Army, the infantry brigade. When the Jewish Brigade was established in September 1944, it was transferred to it as part of its company and was later transferred to the front of the war in Italy. On 17 Nisan, March 31, 1945, a platoon of the First Battalion of the Brigade were taken to an abandoned house where an ambush of German soldiers had been waiting. The soldiers of the class advanced towards the house and were hit by grenades thrown by the Germans. His name was immortalized in the book “The Jewish Brigade” and in memorial pages published by Kibbutz Shamir.