Yaffa, Moshe

Yaffa, Moshe


He was born in 1914 in Poland and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. In 1941 he was one of the first volunteers to join the British army and was stationed in the cavalry corps and participated in the battles in Libya and Greece, during which he was wounded and captured by the Germans on Greek soil. Died in Athens on 13 Iyar, 10.5.1941. Only in May 1943 did the British army inform his family that Moshe had died and was buried in the cemetery in Athens. He left a wife who died a few months after receiving the news of his death.

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