Schmidler, Shraga-Feivel

Shraga-Feivel, eldest son of Yisrael and Ratza Schmidler, was born in 1937 in Ashvants. Two years after his birth, the family had to leave the town as the flour mills and the metal tool factories became the infamous Auschwitz. After the war, the family returned to Shraga-Feivel’s birthplace, but they could not settle there, because instead of synagogues, community houses and residences, they found swords and crematoria, so the family emigrated to France and settled in Paris. In March 1949 they arrived in Israel, settling in an immigrant camp in Pardes Hahayal. When the Six-Day War broke out, he was called to the post and left with a full Lev and joined his commando unit. He advanced with the armor and fell on the western exit of the Mitla Strait in the Lev of Sinai on the fourth day of the battles, on the 9th of Iyar 5727 (8.6.1967), on his way to search for lost friends. He put down a wife. He was buried in the emergency military cemetery in Bari and was later transferred to the eternal rest of the cemetery in Bnei Brak.