Farnbach, Aryeh

Son of Bruno. He was born in 1936 in Germany, and immigrated to Eretz Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah in 1936. In early Israel he studied at the agricultural school in Ben Shemen and later lived in Jerusalem and worked as a laborer in a factory. He served in Egypt and Beirut, and in late April 1943 he left with his company on the deck of the ship “Arinapura” from Egypt in the direction of Malta, in order to participate in the invasion of Europe. On 27 Nisn, May 1, 1943, a German reconnaissance plane bombed the convoy, and Aryeh’s ship was hit by a direct hit and drowned. The members of Company 462 were killed in the disaster, Aryeh was among them. He left a wife. His name was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Yearbook of Journalists”. 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 a water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom.