Schreiber, Shlomo
Son of Frieda and Abraham. He was born on March 4, 1920 in Russia. In 1924 he immigrated to Israel with his parents and sister. From the port of Jaffa, the family moved to Ein Ganim in the suburbs of Petach Tikva and after a while to Kfar Ganim. Shlomo studied at the PICA school and at a young age went out to help support the family, whose financial situation was difficult in those years, and at a later age he acquired an education on his own. He worked in citrus fruit packing in Ramat Hasharon and he worked as a youth counselor and organized orchestras in the nearby colony and Herzliya. After the outbreak of World War II, he was one of the Yishuv’s volunteers in the British Army, and in 1944, with the establishment of the Jewish Brigade, he was disqualified for combat duty because of a handicap in his legs. Eventually he was able to participate in battles on the Senio River against the Germans, and was among the Jewish soldiers who met in the south of Italy with She’erith Hapleitah and in his letters to Eretz Israel described their situation. In a battle on 19 Nisan (2.4.1945) he was hit and died of his wounds and was buried in the military cemetery near the city of Ravenna, in the Jewish Brigade Martyrs’ Brigade Section. He was commemorated in the book “Rishonim” (Five Years for Company A in the Jewish Brigade) and in the “Brigade Book”.
