Jacobson, Hans

He immigrated to Eretz Israel as part of Youth Aliyah and was educated in the youth association in Kfar Yedidya. After the outbreak of World War II he accepted the call of Yishuv institutions and volunteered for the British Army. Jacobson was placed in a transport unit in Hebrew 462 and served in Egypt and the Western Desert. At the end of April 1943, a large convoy of ships headed by Malta was organized in the port of Alexandria to assist the Allied invasion of Sicily. On the ship “Aryanpura” that headed the convoy was Hans’s unit. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, the convoy was attacked by German bombers. The “Aryanpura” was directly hit, drowned, and together with it, 140 members of the unit, Hans among them, descended into the depths. His memory was included in the leaflet “Leaves”, the newsletter of Youth Aliyah, in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists”, in the “Book of Volunteerism” and in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl a memorial was placed for the fallen soldiers in the form of a ship and next to it a pool with the names of all the fallen engraved on the bottom.