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Shiff, Shmuel (Milek)

Shiff, Shmuel (Milek)

Was born on April 2, 1919 in the city of Tarnow, Poland, and was educated in a Hebrew school in his city and completed his general studies in high school, where he studied for only one year, belonged to the Hanoar Hazioni Movement in Tarnow He was a sports enthusiast and devoted himself to table tennis, which he excelled in, and was crowned champion of Poland, and fled to Palestine in 1941. Upon his arrival in Palestine he enlisted immediately in the British Army and became a sergeant One of the officers of his unit wrote that every task he was assigned was done with precision and his role as interpreter was most effective. After returning to Israel, he returned to Israel and was sent to London as a representative of Eretz Israel in an international table tennis competition, and when he returned he began working as a guard at the Electric Company. -transportation. On the 5th of Nisan 5708 (May 9, 1948), he died of depression for unknown reasons and was buried in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.

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