Kreitner, Joseph

During the Second World War, he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the 606 Company of the Israel Defense Forces. He served in Egypt and in the Western Desert in Marsa Matruh and then in Tobruk. In March 1941, he was sent to Greece with a shipping force to stop the German and Italian invasion of Greece. A month later, after the collapse of the British defense system, he fled with his company to Crete, where he was captured by the Germans. He was imprisoned for four years and died on 10 Iyar, April 23, 1945. His name was immortalized in a memorial monument in the British Military Cemetery in Athens, Greece, and in the book “The Book of Volunteerism” in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute Year of the Journalists “, 1946.