Turk, Zvi

Son of Sarah and Abraham. He was born in 1920 in Tiktin, Poland, where he completed his elementary studies. As a member of a Zionist family, he was sent to Eretz Israel at the age of fifteen. In August 1940, Zvi joined the British army and was posted to the 462 transport company, where he took part in battles in the Libyan deserts and was wounded in the bombing of Tobruk by German planes, and returned to his unit in April 1946. In his last letter to his brother from April 1943, wrote: “Soon we will move from here and look the enemy face to face, and I am full of the belief that we will strike him hard and perhaps even be among those who will go to topple the ghetto walls and save our Jewish brothers from the clutches of the Nazis.” At the end of that month, the transport unit 462 left Alexandria port on its journey to Malta as part of the invasion of the Allied armies to Sicily. On the day of 27 Nisan, May 1st, 1943, a German bomb-plane emerged and bombed the ship “Anifora”. One hundred and forty soldiers of the unit drowned in the sea, including Zvi. There is a boat shaped memorial in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in memory of those missing. His burial place is unknown.