EPILOGUE

Michael (Mike) Stolowitzky, an energetic bon vivant, lives in New York and stays in close touch with hundreds of friends in Israel. He is married to Bea trice and has a son. Mike is active in world travel and was a recipient of the prestigious World Tourism Award in London in 2007. In the plot for Righteous Gentiles in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery he erected an impressive monument designed by an architect, and a few times a year he visits Gertruda’s grave. On his visits, he tends to sit at the grave and tell her all that is happening in his life.

Elisheva (Helga) Rink, who lived in Kfar Giladi until her death, had two sons and twin daughters. Moshe Segelson moved to Israel in 1946 and soon visited her. She was moved to tears when she heard his stories about her father. Elisheva died in September 2006 and left her body to science.

Pastor John Grauel returned to the United States and settled in a small town in New Jersey. He often visited Israel. He died in 2003 and was buried in Jerusalem.

Captain Isaac (Ike) Aaronovitch established a shipping company. He is retired and lives in Zikhron Ya’akov.

Yossi Hamburger (Harel), commander of the Exodus, went into private worldwide business in 1950. He lived in Tel Aviv and died in 2008 at the age of ninety.

The Exodus was towed to an abandoned pier in Haifa by the British. After the establishment of the State, preparations were begun to turn the ship into a museum, but an electrical short set fire to the ship, which was destroyed within a few hours.