Tzviling, Kurt-Carl

Son of Heinrich. He was born on 24.1.1922 in Austria and in 1938 immigrated to Eretz Israel. During the Second World War he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Corps. He served in Egypt and Beirut and at the end of April 1943 he went on board the ship “Arinapura” from Egypt in the direction of Malta, in order to participate in the invasion of Europe. On the holiday of 27 Nissan 5703 (1.5.1943), a German reconnaissance plane was flying over the convoy of ships. The plane called the bombers, who arrived in the evening and bombed the convoy off the Benghazi coast. Kurt Carl’s ship was hit and drowned. One hundred and forty members of Company 462 perished in the disaster. Kurt Carl was among them. He left a brother in the country. His memory was commemorated in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Yearbook of the Journalists”, 1946. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a monument was erected in the shape of a ship and next to it is a small water pool, the bottom of which contains the names of all the fallen soldiers. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.