Samuel Herschel Schulman
Samuel Herschel Schulman | |
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Sam Schulman at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, in 2003 | |
| Born | July 8, 1928 Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | July 5, 2019 (aged 90) Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Other names | Sam Schulman |
| Occupation(s) | Seaman, Watchmaker/Jeweler |
| Known for | Crew member on the Aliyah Bet ship Exodus 1947; early founder of Kibbutz Mishmar HaNegev; veteran of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War |
Samuel Herschel Schulman (July 8, 1928 – July 5, 2019) was the last surviving American crew member of the ship Exodus 1947, which tried to bring thousands of Holocaust survivors from Europe to Mandatory Palestine. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Jewish immigrants from Poland, he moved to Paris in 1932, surviving the Holocaust in hiding in central France.
After the war, he was repatriated to the United States where he joined the Aliyah Bet, the clandestine immigration movement to bring Jews who survived the Holocaust in Europe to Mandatory Palestine, and then fought with Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Schulman returned to the United States in the 1950s and was drafted to the US Army during the Korean War, serving two years training soldiers at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. After being released from the army, he went into the jewelry business in New York City.