Weil, Eliezer
Son of Antonia and Michael. He was born on March 22, 1914 in Frankfurt, Germany, where he completed his studies at the Reali Gymnasium. Already at this stage he was distinguished as a talented boy and an outstanding student, and then continued his studies at the Technikom high school but did not finish. He was accused of spreading social-democratic propaganda and in 1936 was arrested by the Gestapo and placed in a detention camp. His brother, who was living in Palestine at the time, heard about what had happened to him and went to Switzerland to try to get him out of prison. Indeed, with the help of the Swiss authorities he succeeded in freeing his sick brother from the internment camp and bringing him to Israel. In 1938 he came to Kibbutz Givat Brenner, where he recovered from his imprisonment. At the end of 1939 he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the transport company 462 as a driver. In late April 1943, an Allied convoy of ships left Egypt for Malta to participate in the invasion of Europe. Also in the convoy was the ship “Aryanpura”, which led troops, including Eliezer and his company. On the day of the 27th of Nisan 5703 (1.5.1943), a German reconnaissance plane circled over the ships. This plane bombed the convoy. Eliezer’s ship suffered direct damage and drowned. 140 members of Company 462 drowned, Eliezer among them. He was survived by his brother. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the 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.
