Fresco, Julius

Son of Ida and Arthur. He was born in Israel in 1939. He lived in Haifa and served in the British army during the Second World War and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps, serving in Egypt and Beirut, and in late April 1943 he left with his company on deck The ship “Arinfora” from Egypt to Malta in order to participate in the invasion of Europe by the Allies, on the holiday of 27 Nissan 5703 (1.5.1943) In the evening, the convoy was bombed and Julius’s ship was directly hit and drowned, and one hundred and forty of the 462 men were killed in the disaster. In the book Yizkor of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Book of the Year” in 1946. At the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a monument was erected in the form of a ship and next to it a small water pool, at the bottom of which are engraved the names of all the company’s fallen Space is a makal – a solder whose burial place is unknown.