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Hertzig, Zvi-Aryeh

Hertzig, Zvi-Aryeh

In the summer of 1940, during the Second World War, he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to Company 605 of the Corps. He served with his unit in North Africa, in Marsa Matruh; In the port of Solom and in Tobruk. In March 1941 his unit was attached to the British Imperial Expeditionary Force, which was sent to Greece to stop the German invasion of this country. At the end of April, after a week of retreat to the Kalamata coast, the BEF surrendered to the Germans and Zvi Aryeh was captured. He spent three years in German captivity and on the 19th of Iyar 5704 (1944) died in the hospital in the Landsdorf DP camp in Germany. He was laid to rest in the British military cemetery in Krakow, Poland.

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