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Wiener, Avraham Zvi (Hershele)

Wiener, Avraham Zvi (Hershele)


Son of Haya and Ze’ev Dov. He was active in a Zionist youth movement and was active in a Zionist youth organization and in 1936 immigrated to Eretz Israel, settled in Haifa and worked as a salesperson in a medical agency. He also made a violin for himself, and in 1942 volunteered for the British Army, Transport Unit 462. On May 1, 1943, he volunteered for the British Army, German bombers attacked a convoy of British ships en route from the port of Alexandria to Malta, carrying forces to participate in the Allied invasion of Sicily. In the memory of the 140, a monument built in the shape of a ship was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, with a water pool at the bottom of which was engraved The names of the fallen are engraved, as well as the verse, “From Bashan, I will answer you from the depths of the sea” (Psalm 48:23). This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.

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