Halperin, Aryeh (Luba)

Aryeh, son of Sarah and Michael Halperin, was born in 1898 in the city of Smolensk, Russia. In 1913 he sailed to Israel on the deck of the ship “Prinzsa Yevgenia Oldynborskaya” with his mother, brother and sister, and in Israel he lived with his parents first in the Neve Shalom neighborhood near Tel Aviv and later on the border between Neveh Tzedek and Manshiyya. In the second year of World War I he volunteered and returned to Israel with his soldiers in 1917. After a brief stay in Tel Aviv, he went to the Gaza front. “We never saw him again”, his brother wrote in his book. He wrote that his brother Aryeh was killed in a general attack by the British army on Gaza, but none of them knew where his burial place was.