Sharshavsky, Shmuel (Molik, Koruchenko)

Son of Esna (Osnat) and Zundel, was born on 12.9.1927 in the city of Kobrin, near Brisk, Poland, and immigrated to Israel with his parents on May 12, 1936. Shmuel studied at the Talmud Torah in Rishon Letzion and, for two years, attended a vocational school in Tel Aviv and later worked in a mechanical workshop. He joined Hashomer Hatzair and the Haganah in the Gadna and later in the Haganah (called the “Haganah” “Koro” and “Kurochchenko” underground), and for four years devoted his evenings to evening classes and training. He took part in training and traveling on Saturdays, in courses and exercises that lasted days and weeks and bore the burden of efforts with dedication and discipline, although according to his views he preferred immigration and settlement to underground and war. During the War of Independence he served as a sabotage officer in the Givati ​​Brigade. After Operation Yoav, he took part in an attack on the police fortress in Beit Guvrin. On the second floor, the Egyptians remained and shot our men, and he was ordered to lay down explosives to blow up the second floor. After he lit the fuse, he could not leave because the entrance was blocked by the wounded commander’s officers who had encountered a barbed wire in an explosion that took place on October 25, 1948, and he was mortally wounded. – The military cemetery in the village of Warburg.