Skorinski, Avraham (Edash)

Son of Bracha and Yaakov. He was born in 1917 in Warsaw, Poland, where he was active in the “Hanoar Hazioni” youth movement in his city, where he completed his studies at the Safwina High School in 1937. In 1937 he immigrated to Israel to study at the Technion in Haifa, During the Second World War he joined the British Army and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps, serving in Egypt and Beirut, and in late April 1943 he went on board the ship “Aryanpura” from Egypt to Malta to participate in the Allied invasion of Europe. On 27 Nisan (May 1, 1943), a German reconnaissance plane was flying over the convoy of ships, the “Aryanpura”, was bombed in front of the Benghazi beach, and Avraham’s ship was hit by a direct hit and a hundred and forty members of Company 462 were killed in the disaster, including Avraham. He is commerated in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Yearbook of the Journalists” 1956. At the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a monument was erected in the shape of a ship.