Shlomo, son of Tova Gitel and Zelig, was born in the city of Karelitz in the Minsk region in 1926. He grew up in his city, where he had a well-established Jewish community, and at the beginning of World War II (end of 1939) The Germans occupied the area in 1941, after the alliance between Stalin and Hitler was broken down, and in September the Novogrudek ghetto was established and a Judenrat was declared and Jews from the surrounding towns were brought to the ghetto, The overcrowding increased and the distress of existence was unbearable: thousands of Jews from the area were murdered by the end of 1942. Only a few managed to escape And joined the partisans in the forests, and Shlomo’s family was imprisoned in the Novogrudek Ghetto, and only he and his brother Yehuda succeeded in escaping to a Jewish partisan unit under the Bielski command from the Naliboki Forest. With the liberation of Poland and the joining of partisans into the ranks of the Red Army, Shlomo participated in the victory campaign until the end of the war, when he learned that all the family members had perished, and his brother Yehudah, who fought most of his time, was killed in a battle in Konigsberg in May 1945. To Italy, where he did a short training for his immigration to Palestine. In April 1946, he planned to board the illegal immigrant ship “Dov Hoz” (“Fida”), whose events were known as the La Spezia affair. The affair began when about 1,000 immigrants gathered at the Italian port, preparing to board the ships “Dov Hoz” and “Eliahu Golomb” purchased by the Mossad for Aliyah Bet of the Haganah. The British, who were in control at the time, discovered the plan and tried to prevent their departure. The immigrants prepared for a long struggle and began a three-day hunger strike, joined by the leaders of the Yishuv. The affair, which aroused widespread echoes and received wide media coverage, embarrassed the British, while the “Nuremberg Trials” were under way. Under pressure from world public opinion and after protracted negotiations, the British had to surrender and allow the ships to sail. Dov Hoz, with 675 ghetto survivors from Eastern and Central Europe, members of youth movements and partisans, and Eliahu Golomb, with 339 members of youth movements, partisans and survivors of concentration camps, on their way to Israel on May 8, In May 1946 their passengers were allowed to leave with the consent and supervision of the British authorities, and were dispersed throughout the country. When he arrived in Israel in May 1946, Shlomo lived in a family home in Ramat Gan, which he received as the last remnant of an extended family. He studied Slavery and worked at Solel Boneh. Shortly after his arrival, Shlomo volunteered for the Hagana, and at the outbreak of the War of Independence he joined the Givati Brigade, the 5th Brigade. He was among the defenders of Tel Aviv and the escorts of the convoys to besieged Jerusalem. In May 1948 Shlomo participated in Operation Maccabi. Operation “Maccabi” began on May 8 and its goal was to break through to the capital of Israel, to conquer the threatening settlements in the Jerusalem corridor and Latrun. On the 3rd of Iyar 5708 (May 12, 1948) a force from the Givati Brigade left a number of armored vehicles from the Hulda area to transfer ammunition eastwards to the Palmach’s Harel forces. Near Deir Ayoub (near Hulda), the force encountered British armored vehicles that opened fire on it and absorbed many casualties, including ten dead. A reinforcements force was sent to his aid, and the reinforced force retreated and seized the Latrun detention camp, intending to use it as a base for the conquest of Latrun. The next morning the force suffered a heavy bombardment of Kaukji’s “Rescue Army” guns stationed in Latrun. There were many casualties and the soldiers were forced to retreat. In this battle fellShlomo was killed on May 13, 1948. Shlomo was twenty-two years old when he died, and his body remained in Jordanian territory and was considered missing, and his memorial was erected at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The last survivors of the Holocaust were survivors of the Holocaust and / or in concentration and hiding camps and / or in hiding and hiding in territories occupied by the Nazis and / or fighting 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. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.
