{"id":17155,"date":"2022-01-28T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=17155"},"modified":"2023-03-01T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:42:52","slug":"goran-jack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/merchant-navy\/goran-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Goran, Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"name\">Jack Goran<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Steward, M.V. Amerika<br>Died 22 Apr 1943<br>Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial<br>Age 29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\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>Joseph (Jack) was born 15 May 1914 in Edinburgh, Scotland to Polish parents Lazarus, a tailor, and Rebecca nee Raftenberg and he had five brothers. The family lived at 121 Rose Street in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack was a saloon steward on the cargo ship M.V. Amerika. On 22 April 1943, the ship was en route from Halifax to Liverpool in Convoy HX-234 carrying a cargo of metal, flour, meat and 200 bags of mail. Also on board were 53 Royal Canadian Air Force personnel. She was torpedoed by U-306 and sunk south of Cape Farewell. 42 crew members, including Jack, 7 gunners, and 37 passengers were lost. 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