Yitshag Aaron Bienenstok
Greaser, S.S. Har Zion
Died 31 Aug 1940
Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial
Age 26
Yitshag was born in 1914 in Poland to Mendel and Sarah and he had a younger brother and sister.
After World War 1, his family emigrated to Germany and in 1930, Yitshag was sent to the youth village of Ben Shemen in Israel. After graduating in 1932, he moved to Kiryat Bialik in Haifa and trained as a mechanic and served on the Har Zion.
The Har Zion left Liverpool at 06.15 hours on 31 August 1940, with 1000 cases of spirit and 120 tons of fertiliser to travel to the USA. The ship was attacked by U-boat, U-38 which fired two torpedoes amidships and ship sank north west of Ireland. The master and thirty five crew were killed.
