Aliyah Bet & Machal Virtual Museum
North American Volunteers In Israel's War of Independence
Aliyah Bet, USA, Alphabetical*
Legend:
+ Christian
# Killed in Action
% Served in both Aliyah Bet & Machal
& Served in more than one ship
| Name | Nat | Hometown | State | Ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| &Abadi, Eddy | USA | unknown* | Northland/Jewish State, Mala/Calanit | |
| &Abrahamson, Lester | USA | Los Angeles | CA | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Abrams, Sydney A. | USA | Seattle | WA | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Alexander, Eugene | USA | New York | NY |  , Pan Crescent/Atzmaut |
| Apple, D. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Applebaum [Appley], George | USA | New York | NY |    |
| Archie, Lee | USA | Warsaw | IL | Altalena  |
| &Aronoff, Murray | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Bacaner, Marvin | USA | Chicago | IL | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| &Baer [Bari], Shmuel | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Baird, Pierre | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| %Ball, Louis [Arye] | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| Barenson, Julian | USA | Bogalusa | LA | Altalena  |
| Barkan, M. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Baruch, Kurt | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Baum [Banai], Ralph | USA | Los Angeles | CA | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &%Baum, David | USA | New York | NY | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &Belman, Shimshon | USA | Chicago | IL | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| &Berg, Bertram [Ben] | USA | Boston | MA | Northland/Jewish State  |
| &%Berger, Stanley | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| &Bergman, Elihu | USA | Seattle | WA | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Bergman, Mordechai | USA | Los Angeles | CA | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| &Bernstein [Barnea], Yisrael | USA | Philadelphia | PA | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &Bernstein, Arthur | USA | Boston | MA | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff, Northland/Jewish State |
| &Bernstein, Jack | USA | New York | NY | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff, Abril/Ben Hecht |
| Bernstein, William | USA | San Francisco | CA | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &+Biddle, James L. | USA | unknown* | Northland/Jewish State  | |
| &Binder [Enden], Dave | USA | unknown* | Northland/Jewish State  | |
| &Binder, Louis | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Blake [Shachori], David | USA | unknown* | Paducah/Geula  | |
| &Blockman, Mordechai | USA | unknown* | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  | |
| &%Bock, Philip | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Bondy, Reuven | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| %Boxer, David | USA | Detroit | MI | Altalena  |
| &Braverman, Hy | USA | New York | NY | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff, Tradewinds/Hatikva |
| Breen, Shabtai | USA | Boston | MA |    |
| &Brettschneider, Louis | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht, Paducah/Geula |
| Brody, H. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Brownstein, Albert | USA | Chicago | IL | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Calic, Yitzhak | USA | San Francisco | CA | Mala/Calanit  |
| &+Christie, Paul | USA | unknown* | Paducah/Geula  | |
| &%Dreifuss, Yochanan | USA | Chicago | IL | Mala/Calanit  |
| &+Edmundson, Howard "Eddy" | USA | unknown* | Northland/Jewish State  | |
| &+Efros, Duke | USA | unknown* | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  | |
| +Fallon, Richard | USA | New York | NY | Altalena  |
| &Fariallo, Charles | USA | unknown* | NJ | Paducah/Geula  |
| Fein, Monroe | USA | Chicago | IL | Altalena  |
| &%Feinberg, Hal [Galili, Zvi] | USA | New York | NY | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &%Fendell, David | USA | Boston | MA | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| Fleigler, Heine Franz | USA | New York | NY |    |
| &Foreman, Bentley | USA | Toms River | NJ | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| Foundeur, Perry | USA | New York | NY | Altalena  |
| &%Frank, Jack | USA | unknown* | Norsyd/Haganah  | |
| Freeman [Schwartz], Tina | USA | Milwaukee | WI |    |
| Freeman, T. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Freeman, T. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Freundlich, Eli | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &%Friedlander [Yeriel], Jack | USA | New York | NY | Northland/Jewish State  |
| Galil, Irving | USA | unknown* | Calanit  | |
| Galili, Z. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Gelberg, William | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Gen, David | USA | Newark | NJ | Altalena  |
| &Gibraltar, Jared "Gerry" | USA | unknown* | Northland/Jewish State  | |
| &Gilden, Joe | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Goldman, George Eugene | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Goldstein [Gerard], David | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| &%Goldstein, Myron | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Gooen, Martin H. | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Gordon, Samuel | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &+Grauel, John | USA | Worcester | MA | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| Gravel, J. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Gravel, J. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &+Greaves, Walter "Heavy" | USA | Providence | RI | Abril/Ben Hecht, Paducah/Geula |
| &Greenfield, Murray S. | USA | New York | NY | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Greer, David | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| Grivendi, William | USA | unknown* | Calanit  | |
| Gutman, N. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Gutmann, David Leo | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht, Paducah/Geula |
| &Halevi, Avraham | USA | New York | NY | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &%Halpern, Benjamin | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| Haramati, Hillel | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &+Henderson, Alton | USA | unknown* | Paducah/Geula  | |
| &Herschkowitz, Harry | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| Hoffman, L. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Hoffman, L. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Jacks, Stanley | USA | Bayonne | NJ | Northland/Jewish State  |
| #%Kahn, Joseph | USA | Los Angeles | CA | Altalena  |
| Kalbesh, Benny | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Kallner, Moshe | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Kalmanowitz [Kalm], Eli | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &%Kaminetzky [Kaye], Paul | USA | New York | NY | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Kaplan, David | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Katz, Harold | USA | Boston | MA | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Kaufman, Elliot | USA | Baltimore | MD | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| &Kellner, David | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &%Kite, Arnold | USA | Chicago | IL | Paducah/Geula  |
| &%Kochavi, David | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Kohlberg, Lawrence | USA | Westchester | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Kolomeitzev, Arye | USA | Tucson | AZ | Beauharnois/Wedgwood, Northland/Jewish State |
| &Konigsberg, Louis [Leib] | USA | New York | NY | Northland/Jewish State  |
| &Kramer, Joseph | USA | unknown* | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  | |
| Kritzburg, Whitney | USA | unknown* | Calanit  | |
| &Kulbersh, Benny | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &+Labaczewski, Augustine L. "Duke" | USA | Philadelphia | PA | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| %Lashner, Arye | USA | New York | NY | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &Lavine, Frank | USA | Boston | MA | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Lebow, Aaron | USA | New York | NY | Northland/Jewish State, Pan York/Kibbutz Galuyot |
| Lechner, A. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Leidner, Harold | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Lester, Sol | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| Levine, Aaon | USA | unknown* | Calanit  | |
| &Levine, Eleazar | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| &%Levine, Philip | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| &Levitan, Hyman Robert | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Levy, Bernard "Lee" | USA | Atlanta | GA | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Lewis, Josh | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Lichtman, Jacob | USA | New York | NY | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| Lieberman, Shmarya | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Liebman, Marvin | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Lifshitz, Arthur [Livney, Avi] | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947, Pan Crescent/Atzmaut |
| %Linsky, Baruch [Bernard] | USA | Philadelphia | PA | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Lipshutz, David | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| Lipsky,Samuel | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Liss, August | USA | New York | NY | Altalena  |
| &Littwin, Wallace | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| %Livingston, David | USA | New York | NY | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff, Pan Crescent/Atzmaut |
| &Lombard, Daniel | USA | Los Angeles | CA | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Lowenthal, David | USA | Pittsburgh | PA | President Warfield/Exodus 1947, Pan York/Kibbutz Galuyot |
| &Lutz, Abbot | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &+MacGarva, Richard | USA | unknown* | Paducah/Geula  | |
| %Malkin [Ostrov], Aryeh | USA | New York | NY |    |
| &Maltese, Danny | USA | New York | NY | Northland/Jewish State, Mala/Calanit |
| &%Mandel, Henry | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Marcus, Hans "Sam" | USA | Philadelphia | PA | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &%Marks, Bernard | USA | Cincinnati | OH | Norsyd/Haganah, President Warfield/Exodus 1947 |
| &+Massey, Dave "Bossy" | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| &+McDonald, Hugh | USA | Boston | MA | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Meltzer, Irving | USA | New York | NY | Northland/Jewish State, Mala/Calanit |
| &Mendelson, Mendel | USA | New York | NY | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| Meyers, C. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Michaeli, Kalman | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Michaeli, Kalman "Mike" | USA | Hightston | NJ | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| Milchaeli, Kalman | USA | Heightstown | NJ | Haim Arlozorov  |
| &%Miller, Bernard [Mills, Dov] | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Miller, Milton | USA | New York | NY | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| &Millman, David | USA | Philadelphia | PA | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Millman, William | USA | Chelsea | MA | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| %Mills, Dove | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Molofsky, Donald "Donny" | USA | Baltimore | MD | President Warfield/Exodus 1947, Pan York/Kibbutz Galuyot |
| %Monash, Harold [Zvi] "Foxy" | USA | New York | NY | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &Morgan, Evan J. | USA | unknown* | Paducah/Geula, Northland/Jewish State | |
| Nachlieli, L. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Nadler, Nat | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Naftal, Al | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Nemoff, Alexander | USA | Detroit | MI | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &%Newman, Benny | USA | Rochester | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| &Newman, Rachmiel [Ralph] | USA | Rochester | NY | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Nicolai, Robert | USA | Chicago | IL | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Nieder, Bailey | USA | Seattle | WA | Paducah/Geula  |
| Padolin, Sy | USA | unknown* | Calanit  | |
| &+Patzert, Rudolph | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Pekofsky, Samuel | USA | New York | NY | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Peretz, Menahem | USA | Milwaukee | WI | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &Perlstein, Mike | USA | Philadelphia | PA | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Phillips, Adrian | USA | New York | NY | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| Pollack, Nathaniel | USA | New York | NY | Altalena  |
| &Potashnick, Albert | USA | Boston | MA | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Prager, Leonard | USA | Philadelphia | PA | Mala/Calanit  |
| &Rabinovitch, Isadore | USA | New York | NY | Northland/Jewish State  |
| Ratner, Nathaniel | USA | Chicago | IL | Altalena  |
| &Rauff, Zeev | USA | New York | NJ | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| &Rav, Zvi "Big Zvi" | USA | Chicago | IL | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Reuben, Arnold | USA | New York | NY | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| +Richardson, Lawrence | USA | Chester | PA | Altalena  |
| &Rifkin, Shepard | USA | New York | NY | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Ritzer, Stanley | USA | New York | NY | Tradewinds/Hatikva, President Warfield/Exodus 1947 |
| &Robins, Ellis "Buddy" | USA | Baltimore | MD | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &Rosenberg, Marvin "Abby" | USA | New York | NY | Tradewinds/Hatikva, Mala/Calanit |
| &Rosenfeld [Vardi], Teddy | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947, Pan Crescent/Atzmaut |
| &Rotenberg, Abe | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| &Rotter, Leonard | USA | Los Angeles | CA | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Rubenstein, Gerald | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Rubin, Irving | USA | New York | NY | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Sandin, John | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| Schaffer, J. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Schatz, Harry Nathan | USA | Milwaukee | WI | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Schelasnitzki [Shell], Manfred | USA | Detroit | MI | Northland/Jewish State  |
| &Schindler, Ralph | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Schlefstein, Leo | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Schlegel, William | USA | unknown* | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  | |
| &Schmetterling, Irving [Israel] | USA | New York | NY | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Schulman, Samuel | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947, Pan Crescent/Atzmaut |
| %Schwartz, Eugene (Josh) S. | USA | Hartland | WI |    |
| &Schwartz, Max | USA | New Haven | CT | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &Sela, Yehuda | USA | New York | NY | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| %Seligman, Dov | USA | New York | NY | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| &Selove, Lou | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Shankman, Israel | USA | unknown* | Northland/Jewish State  | |
| &%Shapiro, Aaron "Alan" | USA | Jersey City | NJ | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Shass [Shachori] [Blake], David | USA | Schenectady | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Sheffi [Shifman], Abe "Avi" | USA | New York | NY | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| Shell, M. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| Shell, M. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| %Shulman, Paul | USA | Stanford | CT | Headquarters  |
| &Siegel, Abe | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Siegel, Zev "Vevie" | USA | Washington | D.C. | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Silver, Martin | USA | New York | NY | Mala/Calanit  |
| &Silverstein, Lawrence | USA | New York | NY | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &%Sklar, Lenny | USA | Boston | MA | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| Solomon, Daniel | USA | New York | NY | Altalena  |
| Solomon, Leslie | USA | New York | NY | Altalena  |
| &Solowitz, Sholom | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| &Stanczak, Frank | USA | Camden | NJ | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Starer, Reuben | USA | New York | NY | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Starobinovich [Gordon], Sam | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| Steuerman, Ben Hagai | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &+%Styrak, Edward R. | USA | Detroit | MI | Abril/Ben Hecht  |
| &Sushman, Benjamin | USA | Boston | MA | Norsyd/Haganah  |
| &Sussman, Ben Ami | USA | New York | NY | Paducah/Geula  |
| Teichman, J. | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &+Tillow, Willie | USA | Boston | MA | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff  |
| &Tsouk, Ephraim | USA | New York | NY |  , Ulua/Haim Alosoroff |
| Wank, Albert | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Weingarten, Irving | USA | Buffalo | NY | Ulua/Haim Alosoroff, Pan York/Kibbutz Galuyot |
| &%Weingrod, Alvin | USA | Milkaukee | WI | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| Weinhaus, Sid | USA | unknown* |    | |
| &Weinsaft, Harry | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947  |
| &Weinstein, Cyril | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947, Mala/Calanit |
| &Weintraub, Sonny | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Weisman, Samuel [Shmuel] | USA | Washington | D.C. | Beauharnois/Wedgwood  |
| &Weiss, Charles | USA | West Chester | PA | Tradewinds/Hatikva, Pan Crescent/Atzmaut |
| &Weiss, Marvin | USA | New York | NY | Northland/Jewish State  |
| &Weiss, Mike | USA | New York | NY | President Warfield/Exodus 1947, Pan Crescent/Atzmaut |
| &Winer, Richard | USA | St. Paul | MN | Altalena, Mala/Calanit |
| &Woodrow [Ben-Israel], Jerome | USA | Detroit | MI | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Wurm, David | USA | unknown* | Paducah/Geula  | |
| &Yellin, Saul | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
| &Yellin, Sydney | USA | Baltimore | MD | Tradewinds/Hatikva  |
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