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Schweitzer, Shlomo

Schweitzer, Shlomo

Batya and Zvi, was born on December 31, 1929 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and attended elementary school. When the German occupation of Poland was among the prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto, he was transferred to the Auschwitz death camp, was saved from death and joined, on liberation, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He studied Hebrew at the children’s home in Hamburg and immigrated to Eretz Israel as part of the Youth Aliya, with the children of Bergen-Belsen on April 30, 1946. When he was at a youth company in Kiryat Anavim, he specialized in all the agricultural work and showed talent and love for work. He also studied shoemaking, was a very social boy, quiet and dedicated. Member of the Haganah. During the siege of Jerusalem, Shlomo participated in escorting convoys and the breakthrough as a soldier in the Harel Brigade, and later moved to the Negev, participated in Operation Horev to expel the Egyptian army from Israel and fell in battle on the Rafah crossing posts, On the 5th of Tevet 5709 (6.1.1949). A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.

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