Marcus, Zvi (Herman)

Son of Zelma – Sarah and Benjamin. He was born on April 3, 1921 in Berlin, Germany, where he was educated in the Jewish school. Zvi was orphaned from his father at an early age. His character and personality was a comfortable and cheerful child. In Berlin he was educated together with his brother David at the “House of Love” in this education house attended orphaned children or children from devastated families. He immigrated to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah on October 26, 1936, when he was 15. He spent two years in the Ben Shemen Youth Village, and then moved with his group to Ramat Yohanan. During the Second World War he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps. He served in Egypt and in late April 1943 he sailed aboard the ship “Arinapura” from Alexandria to Malta to participate in the Allied invasion of Sicily. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, when the convoy of ships that the “Aryanpora” was at the head was found off the coast of Benghazi, it was attacked by a German aircraft carrier. The ship “Arinapura” was hit and drowned immediately. One hundred and forty of the company’s soldiers drowned in the disaster and Zvi was among them. Survived by his brother David. His name was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Book of the Year” of 1946. At the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem a monument was erected in the shape of a ship and next to it a water pool. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.