Rosenwald, Yerachmiel-Richard

Son of Roza and Adolf. Born on February 28, 1917 in Vienna, he immigrated to Eretz Israel in late 1937. He was hired to work in citrus groves and was a guard at the kibbutz. During the Second World War he accepted the call of Yishuv institutions and enlisted in the British army, where he was assigned to a transport unit whose soldiers were Jewish and sent to Egypt, and on one occasion he wished to return to the kibbutz as a full member. At the end of April 1943, a boat convoy left from Egypt, via Malta to Sicily, to participate in the invasion of Europe, and on the deck of the ship “Aryanpura,” which was sailing at the head of the convoy were soldiers of Yerachmiel’s unit. On the afternoon of 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, bombing planes arrived at the scene in the evening and bombed the convoy. The Aryanpura suffered two direct hits and immediately drowned, and one hundred and forty of the unit’s soldiers, including Yerachmiel, were killed in the disaster. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a monument was erected in memory of the dead, in the form of a ship and next to it a water pool with the names of all the dead soldiers engraved on the bottom.