Cohen, Albert (Ali)

Son of Otilia. He was born on October 30, 1906 in Hungary, from where he immigrated to Israel. During the Second World War he enlisted in the British army and was assigned to the cavalry corps. He served in the Western Desert at Marsa Matruch in Solom and in Tobruk, and was then transferred to Greece with the British Expeditionary Force, which was intended to stop the German invasion of this country. At the end of April, the corps surrendered and most of its men were captured. Among them was Albert. He was in German captivity for four years. Towards the end of the war, the “Great March” of the POWs was marched westwards into Germany and on 29 Nisan, April 12, 1945, he was injured as a result of an Allied air strike on the convoy and was killed. He was laid to rest at the British military cemetery in Bad Tolz (Direnbach), Germany. He left a wife. His name was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the book “Yizkor” by the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists”, 1956. An investigation conducted in 2017 found that his grave is in Dornbach, Germany.