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Trachtenberg, Mendel

Trachtenberg, Mendel


Son of Ava and Isidore Mendel. Born in 1882, he lived in London, where he married Jenny Pauline and graduated from Cambridge University. He volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 39th Battalion of the King’s Soldiers, and his battalion arrived in Palestine to participate. In the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey from A-Salat to Jerusalem, where many of the soldiers fell ill and Mendel was among them. On 6 Cheshvan, on the 12 th of October, 1918, Mendel died of his illness and was brought to rest at the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. He left a wife in London. His name was immortalized in the Jewish Brigade House in Avihail and in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute.

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