Coplik, Pinchas

Son of Feiga-Penny and Moshe-David. He was born on the 12th of Tishrei (14.10.1921) in Cologne, Germany, to a traditional family and attended a religious Jewish school in Yavneh in his hometown. In October 1938 he was deported to Poland, from where he moved to Bialystok, and at the end of 1940 immigrated to Palestine. He joined Kibbutz Ramat Hasharon. In 1942, he enlisted in the British Army for the transport company 462. On May 1, 1943, the ship “Arinpura”, which made its way from Alexandria to Malta, was bombed by German planes and Pinchas with one hundred and thirty-nine Jewish comrades drowned. Heleft a brother and two sisters. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of those who were missing, and next to it is a water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.