Taub, Yitzchok

Son of Rivka and Benjamin Ze’ev. He was born in 1922 in the town of Zdunska Wola, near Lodz, Poland, where he studied at a religious seminary, studied religious studies in a “cheder” and learned secular studies in a public school. In 1940, he managed to cross the border to Russia and joined the group “Bnei Akiva” near Netanya. Yitzchok joined the British army in order to fight against the Nazis and was placed in a transport unit and spent some time on Egyptian soil. On 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, the Germans bombed a convoy of of British ships on their way to Malta. The ship “Aryanpura” sunk with Jewish soldiers aboard. Yitzhak and one hundred and thirty-nine of his friends perished at sea. His name is memorialized in the “Book of Volunteerism” Jabotinsky Institute and the “Society for a Soldier”. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of those who were missing, and next to it is a water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown. Yitzchok left behind parents and a sister and two brothers.