Valchik-Bar, Shlomo

Son of Irma and Emanuel was born on January 27, 1925, in the city of Harnica, Czechoslovakia, where his father was a Zionist and maintained his Jewishness in a non-Jewish environment. “Aliyat Hanoar” and was the last group to arrive in Israel after the outbreak of World War 2. He came to his uncle, the dark-boy, who had a small farm in Herzliya, and had a son in Israel. He was a member of the Scouts movement and at a young age he had already acquired the Sports Medal, a year he worked in a Tel Aviv framework, but he was not yet qualified for independent living and conditions He was later transferred to the British Army and later moved to Italy, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and in the army he reached the rank of corporal. At the end of the war he learned of the bitter truth about his family’s fate: his father was shot in the Mauthausen camp and his mother, grandmother, and three brothers were sent to the death camp in Treblinka, and he was sent to a camp in Netanya . After a short time, he took up the role of a squad commander and participated in battles. When asked for some reason he does not go to the home front, as an only surviving son, he replied to his relatives: “Is it easier for the mother of the sons to send her sons into battle than for a mother who did not want many children and therefore gives her son a unit for war?” Shlomo served in the Alexandroni Brigade, participated in battles in the Ma’anit area, the liberation of Haifa, Kakun, Kfar Yona and Salameh. On July 15, 1948, in the evening, his company replaced another company from the brigade in the posts east of Kula and had not yet managed to prepare and dig in properly. The following morning the Legion forces attacked the outpost. Aided by artillery fire and armored vehicles, swept the department posts at the front post and forced the company to withdraw. In this battle he fell on the ninth day of Tammuz 5708 (July 16, 1948.) He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya.