Shmuel studied at the Jewish high school in Munkács. In 1939 he was drafted in the Hungarian army and, at the end of his service in 1941, he was enlisted in forced labor unit that was sent to Ukraine. In 1943 due to an illness, he was sent back to Hungary and joined the movement’s activities.
After the Germans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, he went on missions to country towns in order the help Jews escape from the ghetto. He arrived in his hometown, went into the ghetto and managed to say goodbye to his parents who were not willing to take the risk of escaping. In May 1944 Shmuel moved to Romania within the framework of the tiyul. He made aliya and arrived in Kibbutz Ma’anit. In his last years he worked in the Givat Haviva archives.
