Zeggy (Stokolszczik), Peretz

Son of-Ethel and Isaac. He was born on July 4, 1922, in Bialystok, Poland, where he studied at the elementary school of Tarbut and the Hebrew Gymnasium there, and in 1936 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and completed his studies at the Achdut school in Kiryat Motzkin. He was active in the Hapoel movement, worked in sports and sang and spent many evenings with friends, and worked in the Haifa oil refineries in 1941. In 1941 he enlisted in the Guard Corps and was charged with guarding German POWs, and later joined the British Army and served as a driver in Transport Company 462. In April 1943, With his unit on the deck of the ship “Arinapura” from the Egyptian port of Alexandria, the destination of the voyage was Malta, On the afternoon of 1.5.1943, in the afternoon, a German aircraft carrier attacked a convoy of ships headed by the “Aryanpura.” The ship sustained two direct hits and within minutes it began to sink into the depths. The ship drowned one hundred and forty of the soldiers in the unit, and broke in. He placed two parents and three brothers on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a memorial to the soldiers of the unit in the shape of a ship and next to it a small water pool.