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Abraham Meir Schlechter and his wife, Tzipporah Shedletzki Schlechter, were born in the town of Sokolov, in the district of Podalsk, Poland. Abraham Meir (1/1/1910) was the fourth child of Yehoshua Tzvi and Esther (nee Perlman). Yehoshua Tzvi was a teacher in the cheder and his wife, Esther Tzipporah was a housewife. They had two daughters (whose names are not mentioned) and two sons; Moshe Dov and Avraham Meir. Avraham Meir studied in a Yeshiva in Sokolov Podlaski that was founded and run by Rabbi Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern (Harebbe from Sokolov), the great-grandson of Harebbe from Cochak. The Yeshiva was famous and many students, from throughout Poland, studied there. Yehoshua Tzvi, the father of Avraham Meir, was opposed to self-mutilation as a means to avoid being drafted into the Polish army. And so Avraham Meir was drafted into the army. He refused to eat cooked food for the two years that he was in the army due to his keeping kosher. After his discharge from the army he requested to make aliyah to the Land of Israel. Because it was known that he kept kosher throughout his army service, despite the difficulty it entailed, the Rabbi, who was active in the Young Poalei Agudat Israel Party brought him to Warsaw and there he arranged a certificate enabling him to travel to Israel. When he returned to Sokolov Podalsk he told his friends of his intentions to move to Israel. His friend Yehoshua Shedleski told him about his sister Tzipporah who very much wanted to go to Israel. The two met and eventually married. Tzipporah Shedleski (1/4/1914), the daughter of Yaakov Shedleski, the owner of a carpentry shop, and Chaya Semrik was born in Yablene. Tzipporah, had 5 brothers; Yitzchak, Aharon, Aryeh Leib Shmuel, Menachem Mendel, Yehoshua and Shlomo. Her two grandmothers, Sarah Rivkah Semrik, Chaya's mother, who had a dairy farm in Yablene and Rachel, Yaakov's mother, also lived with them in their house. At the outbreak of WWII (1939), when the Germans invaded the town, the townspeople were herded into the Jewish ghetto. On the 11th of Tishrei, September 1942, the day after Yom Kippur, all the Jews of the town, including members of the two families, Schlechter and Shedletzki, were assembled and sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. In her youth Tzipora studied at the "Beit Ya'akov" educational institution in the town of Sokolov Podlaski. The high school was in the district town Siedlce. Because her father objected to her leaving home she was forced to stop studying. She helped around the house while she dreamed of leaving the anti-Semitic place where she lived with her family in order to immigrate to the Land of Israel. Immediately after the wedding of Avraham Meir and Tzipporah (1934), Avraham traveled to Israel (May 1934) alone, and a year later (1935) upon receiving the immigration visa for his wife, she joined him. Her brother Aryeh (Leiptza), her sister-in-law Yehudit (nee Gerstenstein) and her brother-in-law Moshe (Ber) Dov Schlechter already lived in Israel. The remainder of their family remained in Poland. The couple began their life in the Land of Israel in Nes Tziona and were initially employed picking oranges. Later they wandered between various addresses and jobs. From 1938 to 1939 Avraham Meir Schlechter and his wife Zipporah, together with another family - Miranker (their cousins from Sokolov Podlaski), moved to a two-room rented apartment on Kishon Street # 79 in the southern part of Tel Aviv. In 1943 their daughter Rachel Hanna was born. She was named after the grandmothers of Abraham and Tzipporah. Yoel, the son of the Mirnkers, was also born in this house (1940). In 1947, with the assistance of Aryeh Shadletzky (Zipporah's brother), the Schlechters bought an apartment in Tel Aviv, "somewhere" beyond the orchards, near the Arab neighborhood Somil. The street was initially named after Bracha Fuld. It was then called Arazim Boulevard and was later renamed Yotzer Street in memory of the poet Yosef Tzvi Rimon. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, Avraham Meir was drafted into the Israeli army. Tzipporah and their daughter remained at home. In 1950 their second daughter, Esther Chaya (Etty) was born. She was named after Avraham and Tzipporah's mothers. Avraham worked for Solel Boneh. Tzipporah worked at the events hall at Assuta Hospital which was located near their home on Jabotinsky Street. In her seventies, as part of a Hebrew class at the Pensioner's Club, Tzipporah wrote her memoirs- of her hometown and the period of her immigration to Israel. (A PDF file with her memoirs, in her handwriting, is included in the collection). Avraham Meir died in 1986 at the age of 76. Tzipporah passed away in 2005 at the age of 91. Their daughters; Rachel (later Sokolover) gave birth to three children: Nir, Amit and Noga and nine grandchildren and Esther Haya (later Sender) had two daughters: Avishag Chana and Dina Miriam and two grand-daughters. Written by: Esther Chaya (Etty) Shlechter-Sender, July 2017 اقرأ أكثر