Goldfinger, Zanwel
Personal Information
Rank | Sgt |
Forename(s) | Zanwel |
Surname | Goldfinger |
Gender | M |
Age | 24 |
Date of Death | 24-05-1943 |
Next of Kin | Son of Chajim Leib Goldfinger and Dewora Goldfinger, of Haifa, Israel. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Short Stirling III |
Serial Number | BF478 |
Markings | BU-G |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Runnymede Memorial |
Grave Reference | Panel 150. |
Epitaph |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 170 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 1330847 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 3 |
Squadron | 214 (Federated Malay States) |
Squadron Motto | Ultor in umbris (Avenging in the shadows) |
Trade | Navigator |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Village Green, Chedburgh, Suffolk |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Brick Monument with Inscribed Marble Tablets |
Memorial Text | In memory and honour of the Royal Air Force and Polish Air Force Squadrons who were based at RAF Chedburgh 1942 - 1946 |
Location | All Saints Church, Chedburgh, Suffolk |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Memorial Plaques and RoH within wooden case |
Memorial Text | Roll of Honour and scroll remembering the members of the Royal and Polish Air Forces who served at RAF Chedburgh 1942 - 1946 |
Miscellaneous Information
Zanwel was born in Kielce, Poland 6 January 1919. Brother of Icchak. Both Dewora and Icchak were murdered in Poland in the Holocaust in 1943 along with 10 of Dewora's siblings. His father Chaim survived and he submitted the Holocaust report to Yad Vashem. Chaim died in 1972 in Haifa. Zanwel travelled to London before 1939 and is found as a student in 1939 in Hackney. |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/1322/10 |
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/1322/9 |
Fellow Servicemen
Please note that this list gives all the losses aboard the quoted aircraft and occasionally these may have occurred on an earlier date when the aircraft was not itself lost. Please check the dates of death carefully.
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 23-05-1943 |
End Date | 24-05-1943 |
Takeoff Station | Chedburgh |
Day/Night Raid | Night (78% moon) |
Operation | Dortmund. 826 aircraft- the largest since the 1000 bomber raids. 38 aircraft Lost (4.6%). PFF met with clear conditions and marked the target accurately, leading to a good raid. Much devastation was wreaked across large parts of the city. In particular the Hoesch steelworks were put out of action. 624 were killed. This was the last sizeable raid on Dortmund for exactly one year. |
Reason for Loss | Presumed Lost over the Frisian Islands |