Heber, Joseph

Ben Zippora and Arie (Leib). He was born in 1918 in Poland, where he studied in a vocational school and immigrated to Palestine at the age of 17. In Poland his widowed mother and four younger brothers remained in Poland, and when he arrived in Israel he began working to bring them to Eretz Israel. In 1941. In 1941 he joined the British army and was assigned to the 462 transport company, whose soldiers and command staff were Jews from Eretz Israel, and in late 1942, the eighth camp of the British army In the ensuing attack, the unit reached the Tunisian border, and later the unit was sent to Egypt for renewal At the end of April 1943, at the end of the procurement phase, the unit was brought to the port of Alexandria on a ship that sailed to Malta, where it was to join the invasion force of the Allied armies to Sicily. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a German convoy attacked the convoy, the Aryanpura, on which the soldiers of Unit 462 sailed. It suffered two direct hits and within four minutes she went down into the depths. One hundred and forty men of the unit drowned, and Joseph among them. Joseph’s mother and four brothers perished in the Holocaust. His sister and brother remained in Israel. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the missing and next to it a water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom.