Michalovitch, Feivel

Son of Elia. He was born in 1899 and immigrated to Israel via Egypt in 1934. In Israel he established a home in Tel Aviv, married a wife and engaged in tailoring. At the outbreak of World War II, he was one of the first to enlist in the British Army and was assigned to the Pioneer Corps. When the German army came to help the Italians in their attempt to conquer Greece, Feivel was sent with his unit within the British Expeditionary Force in order to stop the German attack. After desperate battles, the expeditionary force was forced to surrender to the superior German forces. Feivel was sent to a prison camp in Poland and died on 8 Adar, February 21, 1945. He was brought to eternal rest in a British military cemetery in Krakow, and left a wife. He is memorialized in the “Book of the Volunteer Year” and in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute.