Chaim, Mordechai

He was born in 1911 in Czechoslovakia, immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1940 and lived in Kibbutz Givat Brenner in 1940. He joined the British army in August 1940 and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps, and in late April 1943 he sailed with some hundred soldiers and unit soldiers. On the deck of the ship “Arienpura” from the Egyptian port of Alexandria, the destination of the voyage was Malta, and the purpose of the operation was to participate in the Allied invasion of Europe. On the afternoon of May 1, 1943, 27 Nisan, with the “Aryanpora” at its head, the ship suffered two direct hits, and within minutes it began to sink into the depths. The soldiers of unit 462 perished. Mordechai was among them, and Mordechai’s name was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in “The Book of the Year”, and in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument 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. His burial place is unknown.