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Grundland, Aharon (Walter)

Grundland, Aharon (Walter)


Son of-Zheni and Yehoshua-Georg. Born on February 18, 1923. In 1920 he immigrated to Eretz Israel in the framework of Youth Aliyah, where he went to Kibbutz Afikim and went to work in a locksmith’s workshop, At the end of the training period, when he reached the end of the training period, he went out to look for his way through the city. The members of his group in Naame or in Binyamina, and after the outbreak of World War II he joined the British army On his visits to Naame, he recounted his plans after the war and included a return to the kibbutz On May 1, 1943, Aharon was with his unit – Transport Company 462 – Soldiers from Alexandria, Egypt, to Malta, the ship that was traveling through a convoy of 27 vessels, was bombed by German planes and sank shortly afterwards, and one hundred and forty of the soldiers of the unit were drowned, and Aharon among them.In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, 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.

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