Yejuro, Shalom

Son of Masha and Abraham, was born on July 12, 1920 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. In 1934, he completed elementary school and worked in nickel plating. With the outbreak of World War II he fled with his brother to Bialystok and from there to Russia. He was caught and worked in the coal mines at Tilka, in Ural. After a year he wandered to Crimea and worked in Sebastopol. When the war between Russia and Germany broke out he volunteered for the Red Army, bravely fought on various fronts, and was wounded several times in the mornings and in the Battle of Stalingrad. Received six medals for his bravery and courage, among them a medal commemorating the victory in Budapest (a conqueror of the city), the capture of three German cities, and the victory over Germany. In April 1946 he was released from the army and went to Poland. He joined a group of partisans and fighters in Krakow and prepared for Aliyah. On his way he traveled to Germany, and on August 24, 1948, he arrived in Palestine. Upon his arrival he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, was stationed in a Palmach regiment in the Negev Brigade, and shortly afterwards was transferred to another battalion, a half-armored infantry battalion, participated in Operation Horev to remove the Egyptian army from Israel and fell in combat in the Rafah area on Tuesday, (January 4, 1949), who was injured in the bombing of enemy aircraft, was buried in Bet Eshel on August 31, 1949. He was taken to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.