Salomon Gluck

Salomon (Abraham Salomon) Gluck, a French physician and a member of the French Resistance, was born on November 5, 1914, in Zurich, Switzerland, the son of Paul (Pinhas) Gluck-Friedman (1886-1964) and Henia Shipper (1887-1968).

Biography
His father was a direct descendant of Hasidic Masters, going back to the Magid Dov Ber of Mezeritch(1704-1772), the disciple and successor of the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), the founder of Hasidism. He had three sisters, Antoinette Feuerwerker who was born in Belgium, and Rose Warfman and Heidi Naftalis, both born in Zurich. His parents had moved from Galicia, Poland, to Belgium, then to Switzerland, during World War I. The family moved further to Germany, and finally to France in 1921, settling in Strasbourg. Salomon Gluck started High School at Lycée Fustel de Coulanges, located next to the Cathedral and he finished High School at the Lycée Kleber, closer to home, since the family had moved, and then went on to complete his medical studies at the Université de Strasbourg.

When World War II broke out, he had been in London, since 1938, doing an internship. Deciding to go back to France, he joined the French Army on September 16, 1939 and he was sent to the front, on the Maginot  Line, as a second  lieutenant, for all the 1939-1940 campaign. As a soldier, he was taken as a prisoner at Oflag 12b. and recovered his freedom in 1941. Upon his release he received the Croix de Guerre 39-40.

Under the racist laws of Vichy France, he could not practice as a physician. Nevertheless, he did work as a physician in a Children's Home, catering principally to young teenage orphans. The home was part of a network organized by OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants).

Aware of his imminent arrest, he joined his sister, Antoinette Feuerwerker, and her husband, Rabbi David Feuerwerker, in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze. They worked together with Edmond Michelet in the Resistance movement "Combat". After the arrest in the Synagogue of Brive of his sister, Rose, deported to Auschwitz, he left for Lyon,  around February 1944, where he joined the Lyonese résistance. He soon after was arrested by the Milice, when trying to protect his father brutalized by those agents, he openly stated his allegiance to the résistance.

Taken to Fort de Montluc in Lyon, then to Drancy, next to Paris, on May 11, 1944, under the number 21530, he was deported on convoy 73, one of the rare trains from France comprised only of men, and with the final destination being not Auschwitz, but Kovno or Reval. His ultimate fate is unknown but his name is enscribed on his father's tomb in Haifa,Israel, and on the Mur des Noms, at the Mémorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu, in Paris, as an eternal remembrance.