Wissotzky, Jacob

During the Second World War he enlisted in the British army and was assigned to the cavalry corps. He served in Egypt and was later sent to Greece with the British Expeditionary Force, which was intended to stop the German invasion of this country. At the end of April 1941, the BEF surrendered to the Germans and most of its soldiers were taken prisoner. Among them – Jacob. On 17 Sivan, June 12, 1941, when he tried to escape from captivity, he was killed. His burial place is unknown. His name was immortalized in “The Book of the Year of the Journalists” in the “Book of Volunteerism” and in the book “Yizkor” by the Jabotinsky Institute, and in the 2017 investigation a tombstone was found in cATHENScMEMORIALc, Athens, Greece.