Fogel, David

Son of Deborah and Aaron. He was born in 1921 in Poland and graduated from an elementary school in the city of Danzig. At the age of 16 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined the Betar labor company in Rosh Pina, where he joined the British army and was sent to Egypt. In late April 1943, a convoy of Allied ships left Egypt via Malta to Sicily in order to participate in the planned invasion of Europe, and on one of the “Aryanpura” ships were also members of David’s company On the afternoon of April 1, 1943, A German reconnaissance plane circled above the convoy, and the aircraft called the bombers, who arrived in the evening and bombarded the convoy, and the Aryanpura was hit and drowned immediately. Soldiers of the company 462. David was the son of those who perished, and his parents, brother and sister were placed in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and a water-shaped monument was erected in memory of those who were missing. Unknown