Shimshon, son of Ester and Yitzhak, was born in the city of Sombur in Serbia in October 1926. He completed elementary school in his city, then studied carpentry and worked in his profession.In the 1930s there were about 75,000 Jews in Yugoslavia , And most of them lived in Croatia, many of whom were in commerce and finance, and others were involved in industry, clericalism, the professions, etc. Welfare, education, culture, sport and youth were all established in Zionist affiliation. Until the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, the Jews of Yugoslavia enjoyed relative security In 1933-1941, some 50,000 Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis passed through Yugoslavia, and the Jews of the state made a great organizational and financial effort for the refugees, and encouraged them to take part in the war. During the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, the state was divided between Germany and its allies Bulgaria, Hungary and Italy. The Nazi occupiers established a puppet government in Croatia, which destroyed tens of thousands of Jews, Gypsies and Serbs. Sombor was handed over to Hungary, and most of the city’s Jews were murdered in 1944 when the Germans occupied Hungary. By the end of the war about 65,000 Yugoslav Jews had been exterminated. Shimshon and his family were among those sent to Auschwitz, where their parents were murdered. Samson’s older brother fled to Russia where he died of an illness. Only he survived the whole family. At first he joined a labor company, later on he reached the Bergen-Belsen camp where he stayed until the end of the war. After being released from the camp, Shimshon was active in organizing the immigration of illegal immigrants to Palestine. In 1946 he also boarded the ship “Enzo Sereni”. The ship, organized by the Haganah’s Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet, sailed from the port of Vado-Ligure in Italy on January 9, 1946, carrying 908 Ma’apilim, mostly young members of various youth movements. High density, stormy seas and water and food shortages caused its passengers great suffering. Not far from the shores of the country, the ship was discovered by the destroyers of the British Royal Navy. “Enzo Sereni” was the first illegal immigrant ship seized by the British after World War II. The ship was forced to enter the port of Haifa, where the British soldiers took over the immigrants and led them to the Atlit detention camp. A few weeks later Shimshon was released from the detention camp and received by his uncle Yehiel, his father’s brother, in Tel Aviv. The family adopted him as a son, and here he found a respite from his turbulent life. “How good to be between friends,” he said at every opportunity, and soon began to learn Hebrew and work as a carpenter. In the middle of 1947 Shimshon joined the Haganah and underwent training. In April 1948, Shimshon joined the 54th Battalion of the Givati Brigade, the 5th Brigade of the Hagana, and since then participated in the fighting, including the “Nachshon” operation, And on the security of convoys to Jerusalem, and during his few vacations he would come to rest in the home of his relatives in Tel Aviv, and on the night of 2/3 June 1948, during the ” (The “Ad Halom” bridge), the assault was halted by heavy enemy fire and the forces were forced to retreat. The True, but forced the Egyptians to take place instead of restraining the progress expectedVarna moved to Tel Aviv. In this battle, on the 3rd of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948), more than twenty fighters fell, including Shimshon. Shimshon was twenty-two years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in the village of Warburg. This hero is a “last scion”. The survivors of the Holocaust are survivors of the Holocaust who survived the last remnant of their nuclear family (parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters) who experienced the Holocaust in the ghettos and / or concentration camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / Or in combat alongside members of the underground movements or partisans in the Nazi-occupied territories who immigrated to Israel during or after World War II, wore uniforms and fell in the Israeli army.
