Folks, Nachum

Son of Elka and Shmaryahu. He was born on March 26, 1925, in Brody, Poland. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1931. He studied at the Bialik School in Haifa and at a school in Kiryat Motzkin, where he was a quiet student and a good student. After the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the British army and was assigned as a driver of a transport unit in Hebrew. 462. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, the “Arinapura” convoy set sail, its purpose was to reinforce the forces of the Allies who were about to invade Italy. A German plane bombed the ship and 139 soldiers drowned, including Nachum. He left his parents, brother and sister. He is remembered in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the” Lachayal “journal. 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.