Levinson, Chaim

Son of Ama and Leo. He was born on the 17th of Adar I 1821 in Austria and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1938. He joined the British army in the Second World War and was assigned to the 462 unit of the Transport Corps in late 1943. In late April 1943 he sailed with about three hundred soldiers of his unit with the aim of helping the Allies in the invasion of Sicily On the afternoon of 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a German aircraft carrier attacked a convoy of ships with the “Aryanpora” at its head, and the ship sustained two direct hits and within minutes it began to sink into the depths, and along with the sinking ship, a hundred and forty soldiers drowned, Chaim among them. His name was immortalized in The Book of the Year, The Book of Volunteerism and in “Remembrance” by Jabotinsky Institute. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the missing, and next to it is a small water pool, with the names of the hundred and forty fallen. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.