Vitlin, Salo

Salo was on the Mount Zion ship. With the outbreak of World War II, “Mount Zion” was added to the British merchant fleet and sailed between the British ports and the Mediterranean ports. In 1940 she took part in an effort to break through the naval blockade that the German submarines had taken over Britain and passed through the Atlantic convoys. On August 31, 1940, when the ship “Mount Zion” was on its way from Britain to the United States, it was hit by a German submarine and went down to the depths. Together with it, 33 seamen drowned, 17 of them from Eretz Israel and among them Salo. On the rafters of the ship “Mount Zion” and the circumstances of its sinking was published in the book “The Conquerors at Sea Netiva”. The World Zionist Organization’s weekly “Ha’olam” was written about the memorial service for missing persons. An investigation conducted in 2017 found that the date of his death was August 31, 1940, on the 27th of Av. His burial place is unknown.