Schwartz, Shlomo

Son of Miriam (Moshe) and Moshe (Morris) was born on January 6, 1927, in the city of Onyj, Poland, where he studied in an elementary school in Lodz, but at the age of 10 he was forced to stop his studies because of the Nazi invasion He and his mother were deported to the Birkenau concentration camp, where his mother and brother perished and he was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen camp and remained there until he was liberated by the Allied army. He immigrated to Israel in July 1948. As a member of the Haganah abroad, he immediately enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, served in the Yiftah Brigade and took part in battles in the Negev On October 4, 1948, From an outpost near Ruhama, a space fell. He was buried in Mishmar Hanegev. On the 15th of Cheshvan 5710 (15.11.1949) he was put to rest at the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.