Schori (Schwarzman), Zusiya

Son of Mordechai Ze’ev. He was born on August 28, 1906, in the town of Ludwipol, in Volhynia. As a child he studied in a room and for a while in a Hebrew school. When he was twelve years old, the town went up in flames and Zusiya moved to live for a certain period in Bat-David in Naples. Then came the days of the revolution and the boy saw with his own eyes the horrors of the riots. From his childhood, he was educated in Zionism and studied Hebrew. At the age of 15, he began to work in a Hebrew youth group called “The Young Reader.” He then joined the Pioneer Youth movement and began to prepare for aliya, practiced manual labor and studied carpentry. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1923, worked first in a carpentry factory in Jaffa, and later in the Tabak plantations of an agricultural group in Akron, and in 1924 moved to Tel Aviv where he worked in construction. He was one of the first to become a member of Kibbutz Hanita. On 19 Tamuz, July 18, 1938, he traveled on a mission from Tel Aviv to the Kfar Assaf Valley, where two friends were thrown out of the car, and Zusiya, who was sitting at the wheel, was injured in the head and died. He was laid to rest in the old cemetery on Trumpeldor Street in Tel Aviv. A garden was planted in the Emek Hefer valley in his memory, and on the anniversary of his death, his friends published a booklet in his memory.