Shmuel Shilo

Shmuel Shilo or Shmulik Shiloh (Hebrew: שמואל שילה‎, 1 December 1929 – 4 October 2011) was an Israeli actor, director and producer,[1] born in the Second Polish Republic, and best remembered for his role on the Israeli production of Rechov Sumsum, a popular TV show based on Sesame Street. In 1983 he founded the Negev Theatre and served as its creative director for fifteen years.[2]

Life
Shmuel Shilo was a founding member of Kibbutz Tze'elim (pictured)

Shmuel Shilo was born in Łuck, eastern Poland (now Lutsk, Ukraine). Following the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland and the creation of the Łuck Ghetto by the German occupation authorities in December 1941,[3] Shmuel (Shmulik, age twelve) was interned in the ghetto along with his family and 20,000 other Polish Jews.[4] He survived the ghetto liquidation action of August 19, 1942 in a cellar with his mother and siblings, and the subsequent deportation to Górka Połonka killing fields, but all alone on September 12, to join the slave workers in a Nazi labor camp set up at the Jewish school building. He escaped once more, during a prisoner revolt by hiding under a work bench,[5] and survived the war in the forests amongst partisans. After reuniting with his sister rescued by the Poles, in 1946 the two made their way to Palestine. He was a member of Palmach and was a founding member of Kibbutz Tze'elim.

Shilo studied acting and performed regularly in several theatres. In 1983 he founded the Negev Theatre and served as its art director until 1997. He also acted in several films and television series, best known for his role on the Israeli production of Sesame Street, Rechov Sumsum.[2] He died of cancer at the age of 82.[2]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1981Sipur Intimi
1982Noa Bat 17Shraga
1982Hamsin
1985Goodbye, New YorkMoishe
1986Yaldei Stalin
1986Malkat HakitahBaruch
1986Gloves
1987I Don't Give a Damn
1987Ha-HolmimHalperin
1987The Impossible SpyRabbiTV movie
1989Sadot Yerukim
1992Double EdgeMoshe
1998AvivShmuel
2001AjimaeKing BatatonTV movie
2003Meorav YerushalmiEpisode: "Kise Ha-Sandak"
2006The Galilee EskimosFaybel
2006Ha-Chaim Ze Lo Ha-KolEphraim RozanskiEpisode: "Yam Shel D'maot"
2007The Little TraitorMr. Lazarus
2009-2012Prisoners of WarYoske2 episodes, (final appearance)
2011FootnoteCommittee Member
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References
  1. Shmuel Shilo on IMDb
  2. Adva Cohen (10 June 2011), Actor Shmuel Shiloh dies. Ynetnews.com. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  3. Dr Pawel Goldstein, Lutsk (Luck) Ghetto. Geni.com. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
  4. Yad Vashem, Mass-murder of Łuck Jews at Gurka Polonka in August 1942 on YouTube Note: village Połonka (Polish: Górka Połonka or its Połonka Little Hill Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine subdivision) is misspelled in the documentary, with testimony of eyewitness Shmuel Shilo. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
  5. Yad Vashem, testimony of Shmuel Shulman (Shmulik Shilo), Liquidation of the Jewish inmates of the Łuck labor camp in December 1942 on YouTube. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
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