Carter, Irwin-David

Son of Zivia (Eugenia) and Avraham (Adolf). He was born on November 9, 1919 in the city of Bielsk-Biala in the Silesia region of Poland. After completing his high school studies in his hometown he studied for three years at the Technion and specialized in dyeing cloths. He was a member of the Betar youth movement and also played sports. He played as a goalkeeper in the “Hakoach” soccer team. When he approached the Polish army, he decided to immigrate to Palestine, and with the support of his parents he left Poland in the summer of 1939. When he arrived at the port of Haifa he was arrested by the British police and spent several days in a detention camp. He worked in agriculture in Kfar Yehoshua, Kfar Baruch and Yokneam. He was drafted into the British army in February 1940. He was sent to North Africa in July 1940, and then served in Al-Daba, Egypt, and at the Marcheh Matruh in the Western Desert, and from August 1940 to February 1941 he participated in battles throughout North Africa. It was discovered that his ship had sailed before the scheduled time, and he waited for another ship, but by then his holiday had expired and he was transferred with the British Expeditionary Force to Greece, where he was captured by the Germans and sent to POW camp No. 8 near the town of Naysa in Lower Silesia. Rumor has it that he, together with several English officers, tried to escape from a POW camp as an interpreter for German and Polish. The circumstances of his downfall and his burial place have not been known to this day. In the British Army, his name was recorded among those missing since December 31, 1942. He left two brothers.