{"id":17234,"date":"2022-01-28T09:26:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=17234"},"modified":"2022-04-27T12:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:48:17","slug":"rothman-israel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/merchant-navy\/rothman-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rothman, Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"name\">Israel Rothman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Fireman &amp; Trimmer, S.S. Fort Mumford <br>Died 20 Mar 1943<br>Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial<br>Age 23<\/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>Israel was born on 20 September 1919 in Stepney, London to Polish parents Julius and Jane nee Berwick and his father worked as a tailor machiner. The family lived at 13 Ship Alley in Stepney, London and on the 1939 Register, Israel was listed as a ship steward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel was a fireman and trimmer on the ship S.S. Fort Mumford which was on its maiden voyage from Vancouver, Canada loaded with 6,649-tons of war supplies for the Mediterranean, via Lyttleton, New Zealand and Colombo, Ceylon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ship was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-27 killing all the crew apart from one survivor who was rescued by an Arab dhow.<\/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-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-R-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18566\" width=\"402\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-R-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-R-250x161.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-R-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-R-1536x987.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-R-2048x1316.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-R-120x77.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-Rothman-700x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-Rothman-700x413.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-Rothman-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-Rothman-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-Rothman-1536x906.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-Rothman-2048x1207.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Israel-Rothman-120x71.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/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":"Israel Rothman Fireman &amp; Trimmer, S.S. Fort Mumford Died 20 Mar 1943Commemorated at Tower Hill MemorialAge 23 Israel was born on 20 September 1919 in Stepney, London to Polish parents Julius and Jane nee Berwick and his father worked as a tailor machiner. 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