Neilinger, Shmuel-Zalman

Son of Sarah-Leah and Meir. Born on 19 July 1909. He joined the British army and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps, serving in Egypt and Lebanon, and in late April 1943 he sailed with some three hundred soldiers of his unit and with other units on board. On the afternoon of 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a German aircraft carrier attacked the convoy of ships that the “Aryanpura” led, in the early hours of the day. The ship was hit by two direct hits and within minutes it began to sink in. Along with the sinking ship, a hundred and forty of the soldiers of Unit 462 drowned. He left a sister. His name was immortalized in The Book of Volunteerism, Zachor of the Jabotinsky Institute and the Book of Journalists of the Year. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the missing, and next to it is a small water pool, with the names of the hundred and forty fallen. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.