Zeev Shek

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Zeev Shek (born May 13, 1920 in Olomouc , Czechoslovakia , † October 2, 1978 in Rome , Italy ) was an Israeli diplomat .

Life

Shek attended the German high school in Olomouc.

He belonged to the Zionist youth movement Makkabi Hazair and was a member of Hechaluz in the Theresienstadt ghetto . In Theresienstadt he worked in the so-called Talmudic Hundreds, which had to catalog the seized Hebrew books from Jewish libraries. Shek tried to collect as many documents as possible about the true role of Theresienstadt and to keep them safe. When he in the fall of 1944 in the concentration camp Auschwitz deported was put Alisah Ehrmann (* 1927), which he had briefly met before, his job gone and looked after the receipt of the documents.

After the end of the Second World War , she gave Shek the documents that she had hidden in a suitcase in Prague . Shek had last been in the Dachau subcamp Kaufering and after his liberation now worked as head of the documentation campaign organized by the Jewish Agency in Prague. In 1947 he emigrated to the British Mandate Palestine and began to study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . During his stay in Prague as a member of a delegation at a youth congress, he married Alisah Ehrmann. In July 1948 the two returned to Israel. Shek now entered the diplomatic service. From 1950 to 1953 he was first secretary at the Israeli embassy in Prague, from 1956 to 1960 at the embassy in London . His further career brought him to Paris from 1960 to 1963 . From 1967 to 1971 he was ambassador to Austria . In 1977 he became ambassador to Italy and held this post until his death.

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  1. ↑ Trude Simonsohn, Elisabeth Abendroth: Another luck (p. 21.)
personal data
SURNAME Shek, Zeev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli diplomat and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1978
Place of death Rome , Italy