Shiffer, Zvi

Son of Rivka and Avraham. He was born on January 1, 1908 in Warsaw, Poland, and as a youth he immigrated to Israel in 1925 with his family. The family settled in Bnei Brak and worked in agriculture. Zvi belonged to the Hanoar Haoved movement and later joined the “Ichud Regev” cooperative and worked as a driver. From his youth he was also active in the Haganah. 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 Beirut and at the end of April 1943 he went on board the ship “Aryanpura” from Egypt in the direction of Malta, in order to participate in the Allied invasion of Europe. On the 27th of Nisan 5703 (1.5.1943), over the convoy of ships, the “Aryanpora” was headed by a German reconnaissance plane, the plane called the bomb planes, which arrived in the evening and bombed the convoy, sailing off the coast of Benghazi. Zvi’s ship suffered direct damage and immediately drowned. One hundred and forty members of Company 462 perished in the disaster, Zvi among them. Lay mother, brother and sister. Zvi’s memory was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” “The Book of the Year of the Journalists”, and the “Soldier’s Notebook.” In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a memorial monument in the shape of a ship was erected in memory of those missing. The company is a machete – a space whose burial place is unknown