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Ezra Sherman in the Palmach 
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another operation,” Sherman said. “We were very little soldiers. I
was 17 years old. We didn’t have time to think.”
In the ensuing decades, Sherman also fought in the Six-Day
War and the Yom Kippur War.

In 1956, Sherman married Sara Lamdan, another Holocaust
survivor who came to Israel on the Exodus. They lived in Haifa,
where Sherman owned a trucking company, and had three chil-
dren. In 1974, they moved to New York and then to Philadelphia,
where Sherman bought a tire center.

Estee Solar, Sherman’s daughter who was 5 when the family
moved to the United States, said the family moved to the U.S.

because her father had had enough of wars.

“We were all taught to be able to stand on our own two feet,”
she said. “You take a potato; you can make food out of it. The
Israeli way was, ‘You don’t have it? Go grow it yourself.’”
Solar said her father didn’t really start talking about the Holo-
caust until he started having grandchildren, of which he now
has six. Sherman has done some Holocaust remembrance work,
having spoken at schools in addition to the Holocaust museum.

“I’m lucky I’m still alive,” Sherman said. “I’m 87, thank God,
and that’s it. I’m not complaining.” l
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