{"id":10353,"date":"2020-12-22T12:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/?post_type=carers&p=10353"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:46:08","slug":"shalom-markowitz","status":"publish","type":"carers","link":"https:\/\/dev.45aid.org\/COPYLIVE\/carers\/shalom-markowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Shalom Markowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Markowitz was born in 1917 to an Orthodox Jewish family who had come to Britain from Belarus in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

Shalom was the youngest of nine siblings. His father had a greengrocer\u2019s shop in Whitechapel.<\/p>\n

At the age of 18, he went to study theology at the London School of Jewish Studies. He received a bachelor\u2019s degree but left before being certified for the Rabbinate.<\/p>\n

During the Blitz, Markowitz ran an institution for Jewish children who were evacuated from London to Surrey. As a theology student, he had been released from military service.<\/p>\n

He married his wife, Edie, on 16 March 1942.<\/p>\n

At the end of the war, in June 1945, he went to help the survivors of the Bergen-Belsen camp as the commander of a rescue unit.<\/p>\n

Before leaving for Germany, he gave his wife Edie a written document, agreeing to a conditional get (Jewish writ of divorce), just in case, he disappeared.<\/p>\n

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Markowitz directed the Bachad hostels programme and played a role in the illegal Aliyah Bet. He was probably a member of the Haganah as his wife recalls that the basement of a hostel that they ran in Cazenove Road<\/a> in London was used as a centre for the Jewish underground.<\/p>\n

The couple both participated in the founding of Kibbutz Lavi in 1949, and had two children.<\/p>\n

This profile was written by Ruby Kwartz.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>