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The box on which Jacob Marmorosch engraved the names of the camps through which he passed
Jacob Marmorosch was born in 1907 in Kolomiya, West Ukraine. He immigrated to Eretz Israel, enlisted in the British Army and was deployed to Greece with the British Expeditionary Force. On the night of 28-29 April 1941, Jacob was captured by the Germans along with the British troops stationed on Kalamata beach in Greece. The prisoners of war were transferred from one camp to another, and at the end of June 1941 were transported in cattle cars to POW camps in Germany. Jacob engraved the names of the camps that he passed through on a small wooden box.
Jacob used his time in captivity to study medicine. Thanks to the knowledge that he acquired, he was able to pass himself off as an epileptic, and his convincing act brought about his release from captivity. Following the liberation, Jacob resumed service in the British Armed Forces.
Jacob died in Israel in 1984. The box telling the story of the soldiers from Eretz Israel in occupied Nazi-German territory was donated to Yad Vashem by Jacob’s daughter, Chana.