{"id":17089,"date":"2022-01-28T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=17089"},"modified":"2022-04-19T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:30:15","slug":"abramovitch-kalman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/merchant-navy\/abramovitch-kalman\/","title":{"rendered":"Abramovitch, Kalman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"name\">Kalman Abramovitch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ordinary Seaman, S.S. Har Zion (Famagusta)<br>Died 31 Aug 1940<br>Commemorated on Tower Hill Memorial<br>Age 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Kalman was born in Russia in 1919 and immigrated to Tel Aviv, Israel when he was two years old. After school he joined Palestine Maritime Lloyd Ltd and worked as a sailor on the &#8216;Har Zion&#8217; ship. The ship sailed between Israel, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece and the Black Sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the out break of war the ship joined the British war effort. At 06.15 hours on 31 August 1940 the ship left Liverpool with 1000 cases of spirit and 120 tons of fertiliser to travel to the USA. The Har Zion 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. The only survivor Osman Adem was rescued the next day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.izkor.gov.il\/en\/fallen\/Kalman%20Avramovitch\/en_f0ffb6c5326b6d082bf249af6b0dc68f\">Izkor &#8211; Private Kalman Avramovitch<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/kalman-abramovitch.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18329\" width=\"398\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/kalman-abramovitch.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/kalman-abramovitch-120x152.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption>Courtesy www.izkor.gov.il<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kalman Abramovitch Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 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