Bek, Yaakov (Joachim)

Son of Alma and Salo (Shmuel). Born in 1914 in Hamburg, Germany, to a traditional family, he studied in a Talmud Torah in his city, and in 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, he left Germany, immigrated with his sister to Eretz Israel and lived in Haifa. When World War II broke out Yaakov was assigned to the British Army and was stationed in the first anti-aircraft artillery unit in Palestine, and his unit served in various places in the country. Upon the establishment of the Jewish Brigade – the Brigade – his unit was attached to it and sent to Italy. On December 27, 1944, he was killed and was buried in a British military cemetery in the city of Bari, Italy.