Deutsch, Fritz

Son of Ethel and Eugen. He was born in 1916. During World War II, he enlisted in the British army and served in the Transport Corps in Unit 462. At the end of April 1943 a convoy of ships loaded with soldiers and equipment left the port of Alexandria to reinforce the Allied forces that were about to invade Italy. “The convoy was attacked by German bombers on May 1, 1943. The” Aryanpora “was hit and sunk with 140 of the unit’s soldiers on board, and Fritz among them.In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, A monument shaped like a ship was erected in memory of those who were missing, and next to it a water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom. Know