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SHLOMO AND ANITA SHOR
(SHAW)
NATALIE ZARACH SOFAIR
They met in Habonim, on Hachshara in
Bosham and Burbage, and worked in
Manchester for the Movement. Anita and
Shlomo were married on Lag B'Omer, 1946
in Egerton Rd. Shul, Stamford Hill.
O They lived until their Aliyah in the Habonim
nly after making Aliya in 1973, did I
realise just how many of my mother's
Bayit in Manchester, perhaps on Bury Old
family had been in Habonim. In the
early 1930s. My mother (Milli) was pulled in Road. Anita worked as a cook in a hostel in
by her brother, Victor Sefton, and his Loughton for refugees from Germany and
girlfriend, Edith Wislicky, to Gedud Austria.
Trumpledor. She made Aliya with her husband Shlomo, on
After WW2, Victor and Edith moved to the Pan York from Marseilles, together with
Canada. Their daughter came on Aliya in the many Jews from North Africa, arriving on the
early 1970s, marrying Ammi Shor, whose 29th November, 1948. Also, on their voyage
parents had also been in Habonim in Britain. was Shlomo's cousin from Liverpool, Esther
Caplan, a member of Hashomer Hatzair. She
These photos are from Ammi's parents' married Avri Katz and still lives on Kibbutz
album. Anita Brazil was born in Gateshead Evron.
and lived in Sunderland. Shlomo Shaw was
brought up in Liverpool. They both came Shlomo and Anita first lived on Kibbutz
from observant families. Habonim, Mansour (which later became
known as Kfar Hanassi), but did not stay
there long. In 1949, they joined the founding
Garin in Kibbutz Lavi, where Ammi and his
older brother, Natan, were born.
The family left Israel in 1952, to live in
Liverpool, where their third son, Michael,
was born. They all returned to Jerusalem in
1970. Their three sons were in Bnei Akiva in
Liverpool and live in Israel.
Bosham Hachshara 1940s
In 1972 the family changed their surname
from Shaw to Shor.
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