Lutz, Isaac

Son of Sarah and Yeshaya. Born in 1912 in Brezhica, Latvia, he studied at the elementary school in the city and joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in 1932. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1932 and joined Kibbutz Kfar Giladi and later moved to Tel Aviv where he worked as an electrician He served in the British army and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps, serving in Egypt and Beirut, and in late April 1943 he left on the deck of the ship “Arinapura” in the direction of Malta to participate in the Allied invasion of Europe on May 1, 1943 (27 Nisan). Yitzhak’s ship was hit by a direct hit and one hundred and forty soldiers of the 462 Company perished in the disaster, and Yitzhak among them. He left three sisters and a mother who perished in the Holocaust. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a monument was erected in the shape of a ship and next to it is a small water pool, with the names of all the company’s fallen engraved on the bottom. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.