Lipman, Peretz

During the Second World War, he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the Ports Operations Company in 1039. He served in Egypt and in Tobruk, and in February 1941 he was sent to Greece as part of the task of stopping the German invasion. In late April of that year the British army surrendered and many of its soldiers were taken prisoner. Including Peretz. He was held in German captivity for a year and a half, and on December 22, 1942, when he was in a prison camp in Tarnowice, Poland, and was working on the railroad tracks, a train hit him and he was killed. Peretz was laid to rest in the British military cemetery in Krakow, Poland. His memory was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in “The Book of the Year” by the Jabotinsky Institute and in the book “Yizkor” by the Jabotinsky Institute, which was found in 2017 in Cracow-Poland, cRoyalcEngineers. – Peretz-Fritz