Schwartz, Shlomo-Yehuda
Son of Tova and Mordechai, was born on 25.6.1926 in the city of Seroush, Hungary to working parents. He was educated on tradition and completed six elementary school classes. Shlomo-Yehuda gave up his studies so that he could take care of his sick mother and take care of her. For seven consecutive years he fulfilled this duty until the Nazis came and put him in a detention camp. When the Russians approached, he managed to escape from the camp and hid in the bunker for four days until the area was transferred to the Russians and released. Together with his brother Amram, he returned to his parents’ home and found him a sword, and then they decided to immigrate to Israel. Shlomo-Yehuda arrived in Israel in 1946 on the illegal immigrant ship “Wedwood”, settled in Kfar Ata and worked as a laborer. Shlomo-Yehuda was among the first to join the War of Independence, served in the Alexandroni Brigade and participated in many bitter battles: in the mountains of Ephraim, and more recently in the Negev. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation” operation was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle he fell on the 28th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948). He was buried in Faluja. A year later, on the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8 December 1949), he was put to rest at the military cemetery in Haifa. Survived by two brothers – Amram and Moshe. His nephew, born after his death, was named after their father and his name.
