Shmuel (Shmulik)
Was born in 1917 in the city of Rovno in Volhynia, and when his father was appointed cantor in the synagogue in Kehillat Kremenitz he moved there at the age of nine, and in his pleasant voice he sang in his father’s choir and learned to play mandolin. And at the age of 13 he began studying book binding, and after joining the movement at the Hashomer Hatzair party, he joined the movement, and in Chelm and Lublin, he was astonished by his hard work, despite his lean body and was considered among the most desirable workers During the evening he was engaged in his profession, in installing albums for his friends In 1939 he left with his girlfriend in a convoy of illegal immigrants and arrived in Nahariya in February 1943. He joined his kibbutz Mitzpeh Hayam in Netanya in 1942. In 1942 he left his wife and infant child And enlisted in the British Army because of his poor health and refused to join him in the Jewish Brigade in 1944. In Italy he served first in a company of sappers and mines, and in the battle for the Pooh, transporting equipment and supplies to the front lines. In his letters home he expressed his aesthetic pleasure in Italy’s treasures and art treasures, and then his participation in the victory over the Nazi enemy and his assistance to She’erith Hapleitah, where he dealt with his comrades through enemy countries Austria and Germany to the Low Countries. When he was released, he returned home to his kibbutz, which had meanwhile settled in the Gaza Plain and was called Yad Mordechai. As a carpenter he studied carpentry and worked in his profession. In the winter of 1948, he contributed to his duties in guarding and defense, and in his last military career, as well, when the way to the kibbutz was fraught with dangers, he was recently attached to the Palmach unit and fought all the weapons held by the kibbutz against the Egyptian invader. Even after he was wounded, he refused to leave the campaign. At first he helped with the delivery of ammunition, but immediately returned to action with weapons. When an Egyptian tank burst into the entrance to the farm, he went out to meet him with a pair of grenades. In these grenades the tank was taken out of action, but a volley of enemy bullets hit him and knocked him down on the 14th of Iyar 5708 (May 23, 1948). He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Yad Mordechai.
