Kitai, Moshe

Son of Esther and Nachum. He was born in 1925 in Kovel in the Ukraine and was raised in an institution in the city of Rovno. In 1922, he made aliyah to Israel with a group of children incluidng his three sisters ahd h worked in the Jezreel Valley. He lived on the farm of one of his sisters in Givat Ada, worked in the driving and construction of the building, and joined the British army in 1942. On the afternoon of 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a group of German planes bombed a convoy of ships headed by the “Aryanpura.” The ship sank immediately and the ship reached the depths of the sea, along with a hundred and forty soldiers of the unit, Moshe among them. He left three sisters and a brother who remained in Russia, and in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of those missing.