{"id":18848,"date":"2023-04-18T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=18848"},"modified":"2023-09-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:00:00","slug":"abrahams-michael","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/army\/abrahams-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrahams, Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"name\">Michael Abrahams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Private, South Lancashire Regiment<br>1st Bn.<br>Service number: 3777455<br>Died 27 Feb 1945<br>Buried Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany <br>Age 24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;BELOVED AND NEVER FORGOTTEN BY MOTHER, FATHER, ANNE AND HARRY&#8217;<\/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>Michael was born as Isiah Meyer on 5 March 1920 in Birkenhead, Cheshire to George (Goodman), who was born in Warsaw, Poland, and Caroline nee Bernstein. Michael had an older brother Harold and a younger sister Anne and their father worked in the docks in Birkenhead as a ships joiner. By 1939, the family had moved to Bebington in Wirral near to where George was working at the docks at Bromborough.  In 1939, Michael lived with his parents and worked as a shop assistant in a gents outfitting shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael enlisted as a private in the South Lancashire Regiment and was killed serving in Germany. His obituary states that he was acting as a runner for his O.C. and was killed while trying to get away with a message.<\/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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/56032037_1413580298-Des-Philipet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/56032037_1413580298-Des-Philipet.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/56032037_1413580298-Des-Philipet-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/56032037_1413580298-Des-Philipet-120x160.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Des Philipet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2022-11-12-120056.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34410\" width=\"401\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2022-11-12-120056.jpg 323w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2022-11-12-120056-250x50.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2022-11-12-120056-120x24.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\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\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael&#8217;s Will<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"846\" data-id=\"34412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tna_r39_3986_3986a_003-700x846.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tna_r39_3986_3986a_003-700x846.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tna_r39_3986_3986a_003-250x302.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tna_r39_3986_3986a_003-768x928.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tna_r39_3986_3986a_003-1271x1536.jpg 1271w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tna_r39_3986_3986a_003-1695x2048.jpg 1695w, 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