Cohen, Moshe (Max)

Son of Sarah and Menachem. He was born on May 25, 1909 in Stanislaw, Poland, where he received a traditional education both in his parents’ home and in the “cheder” where he studied Hebrew and Torah, and then went on to study in his high school. He continued his studies in Hebrew and joined the Haganah and participated in the maintenance of the settlements of the Tel Mond bloc. After the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the British Army and he joined the transport company 462. At the end of April 1943, Moshe and his comrades in the company boarded the flagship of a shipload from Alexandria, Egypt to Malta in order to participate in the invasion of the Allies in Sicily. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a group of German bombers attacked the convoy of ships. The Aryanpura ship was hit and drowned, and with it a hundred and forty members of Company 462, Moshe among them. .In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of those who were missing,