Stern, Shlomo-Alter

Son of Betty and Moshe. He was born on May 11, 1914 in the Czech Republic and was a member of the Dror youth movement. In 1934, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined the “Habarut Ha-Socialist” group in the Borochov neighborhood. He then moved with his friends to her permanent settlement in Galil Yam. Among his friends, he was known as a man of manners, sane and always willing to help others. From the day he immigrated to Israel he was a member of the Haganah. After the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the British Army and was attached to the Hebrew Transport Unit. 462. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, he was among the hundred and forty soldiers of his unit who went down to sea after German bombers drowned the ship “Aryanpura” which took them from Alexandria to Malta In Allied convoys. 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 water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom.