Avni (Steinbock), Shraga

Son of Goldina and Hermann. Born in 1922 in Baku, Romania. After finishing elementary school, he moved to a Jewish vocational school in Bucharest, where he realized his inclination to work. In Baku he belonged to the Zionist youth movement. In 1936 he accepted the call of his older brother, who was in Kibbutz Geva, to come to Eretz Israel. Shraga was educated in Geva for two years and then decided to work as a driver in Oded Wingate’s “Night Squads” around Safed. In 1939, after receiving the consent of his brother, he enlisted in the British army as part of an Israeli driver’s unit at the age of 18. He served for three years in the unit until his fall on the sea on the 27th of Nissan, 5703 (5703). A convoy of ships carrying the ship of Shraga’s unit, which was on its way from Alexandria, Egypt to Malta, was attacked by German planes, and the ship on which Shraga was sunk was injured by the bombardment. Lay down brothers and sister. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a monument shaped like a ship was erected in memory of the missing, and next to it is a water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom. An investigation conducted in 2017 found that he was murdered at BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL, Rockwood, UK. The location of the Tomb of the Panel 15. The space is a macaroni – a space whose burial place is unknown.