Schechter, Leon

He was born in Poland on June 21, 1904, and from there he immigrated to Palestine, where he joined the British army and was assigned to the 608 Company of the British Expeditionary Force. He served in Egypt and the western desert of Marsa Matruh, Solom and Tobruk. About a month later the army surrendered to the Germans and many of its men were taken prisoner, including Leon, who was held captive by the Germans for about two and a half years. On 7 Kislev, December 4, 1943, he died at the hospital in Blamsdorf. He was laid to rest in the British military cemetery in Krakow, Poland. He left a wife. His memory was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in “The Book of the Year of the Journalists”, and in the book “Yizkor” of the Jabotinsky Institute.