Lubczynski, Benjamin

Benjamin was a sailor on the ship “Mount Zion”. With the outbreak of World War II, “Mount Zion” was added to the British merchant fleet and sailed between the British ports and the Mediterranean ports. In 1940 she took part in an effort to break through the naval blockade that the German submarines had taken over Britain and passed through the Atlantic convoys. On 27 Av, August 31, 1940, when the ship “Mount Zion” was on its way from Britain to the United States, it was hit by a German submarine and went down to the depths. Together, 33 sailors drowned, 17 of them from Eretz Israel and Benjamin among them. He is commemorated in the book “Haolam”.