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Dear Editor

To the Editor via the IBH Chairman Before meeting up with the others of the group in
Marseilles, Boris, Bella, Fay and I had been
Dear Aryeh, driven across Europe in a Land Rover by a Mr.
Brill, who I think was the farm manager of the
It was sad to learn of the deaths of Boris & Bella Hashomer Hachshara. Mr. Brill told us many cock
and Esther Peled from KBH. These three, along & bull stories about his adventures in the RAF
with my late wife Fay and I, in a small group during the war and that he had been shot down
came on Aliya on the good ship "Artzah." Not over France and made his way to Spain and
many of this small group are still alive.
Portugal and back to the UK.

It was quite a memorable journey. After leaving Later he was in court for fiddling the accounts at
Naples, we were caught in a terrible storm and the the Hachshara and it turned out that he had been
ship was in danger of capsizing. The rumour went an officer in the ATC!
around that the captain had been warned that an
exceptional storm was forming out there but that I first met Ester Newman (as she then was) in
he had heard that Israelis aren’t frightened. 1943 when I joined Habonim in London and Boris
when I joined Bosham Hachshara in 1948 and
We had to put into Messina to clean up all the Bella in Feb 1949 when she and Boris were
mess caused by the storm.
married in Golders Green.
The other memorable event on that journey was Gerald Jackman
that the day before arrival in Haifa, the death of LEEDS
Chaim Weizmann was announced and a memorial
service was held.

Irgun Bogrei Habonim
With regret we report the death of our chaverim
ךורב םרכז יהי

Vera Heimann (nee Cainer) Bradford, Amiad, Kfar Hanassi, Netanya
Adam Ben-Chanoch (Zami Chanichovski) Berlin, Newport Pagnell, London, Kfar Hanassi
John (Gluckman) Gillon Manchester, Garin Zayin, Aguadulce (Spain)
Jeffrey (“Titch”) Adler Liverpool, Machal, Mansura, Kiryat Motzkin
Hava Markovitz (nee Bachrach) Essen, Kindertransport, Cyprus, Tel Aviv
Ilana (Valerie) Goldberg (nee Tash) N.W. London, Beit Haemek, Eilat
Tova )Gertie( Varod (nee Gantz) East London, Latton & Bosham, Kfar Hanassi, Ramat Hasharon

We extend our condolences to their families

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