Peretz, David

Son of Tovah and Yosef. Born in 1913 in Salonika, Greece, he attended the Alliance School and was active among the Zionist youth. In 1932 he immigrated to Eretz Israel despite his parents’ objections. For his livelihood, he set up a carpentry factory in Tel Aviv and over time went on to design shop windows. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the Operations Company of the Engineering Corps. He served in Egypt and in March 1941 he was sent to Greece with the force that was intended to stop the German invasion of this country. In Greece he met his parents and younger sister. His two other sisters were already in Palestine at the time. In late April 1941, the British army surrendered to the Germans and most of its men were taken prisoner. Among them was David. One day he escaped from the POW camp with three friends who were with him there and returned to his unit stationed in Egypt. On July 16, 1943, a jeep collided with a train and this accident was killed. He was buried in Fayyad, Egypt. He left a wife and a daughter. His name was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the book “Yizkor” by the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists” 1956. An investigation conducted in 2017 found that his place of rest in Fayyad, Egypt.