Wolf Engelhardt

Special Operator, 101 Squadron
Service number 1895899
Died 28 July 1944
Buried Rebrechien Communal Cemetery, France
Age 23

Headstone Inscription
‘LEST I FORGET THEE…’

Wolf was the son of Leo and Sophie of Erfurt, Germany.

In February 1939, as the persecution of Jews increased, Wolf managed to obtain a permit and fled Germany travelling on a Polish passport, his father Leo’s nationality. His brother Siegfried escaped from Germany in June 1939.

They left behind their parents and younger brother Issy who were deported to the Nowy Sącz ghetto in Poland. Letters were received from their parents until 1941 when they were killed in the Holocaust.

Click on the links below for information on Wolf’s life.

Resources

Early life of Wolf and Siegfried in GermanyDownload
Correspondence from Engelhardt family in GermanyDownload
Wolf’s story by the Ellis familyDownload
Rebrechien Memorial Brochure. Story of the crew and crash Download

Gallery

  • Engelhardt family, Germany, 1936. Left to right: Leo, Wolf, Issy, Siegfried, Sophie
  • Wolf as a cadet
  • Wolf and Siegfried 1943
  • Wolf
  • Photo of Wolf recovered from the crash site
  • Crash site
  • Grave in the 1940’s
  • Grave today
  • Memorial at Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley
  • Memorial Plaque at Rebrechien