Kanze (Anza), Yosef

Son of Sarah and Nissim. Was born in 1919 in Jerusalem to a large family that lived in the Old City. Yosef studied at the Talmud Torah elementary school. In 1935 he married and made a living as a truck driver driving gravel. During the Second World War he enlisted in the British army and was sent to serve in the Libyan desert in the water transport unit. In December 1942 his truck mounted on a mine near the town of Bardia in the Libyan desert. He was transferred to a hospital and on 22 Tevet, December 30, 1942, he died of his wounds and was buried near the hospital fence along with five British soldiers. His younger brother, Yitzhak, who also served in the British army, made sure to bring him to rest in the Jewish section of the British military cemetery in Benghazi, Libya. He left a wife, a son and four brothers. His name was immortalized in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists” 1956. In the book “Yizkor” of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Book of Volunteering.”