Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

In October, 1943, Leon Malkin was shipped over to England, and stationed in a unit created especially to repair tires; his civilian trade.

Leon Malkin landed with his unit, which was attached to a mechanized corps of the First Army, landed on Omaha Beach, and started repairing tires within
an hour after landing.

Leon Malkin and his unit went from Normandy, through Paris, to the border of Belgium to Aachen and Bonn.
On VE Day, he was at Kassel.

In April, 1946, on the day after Passover Seder, HMCS Beauharnois and Norsyd sailed from the Port of New York.
David Gottlieb cites: "Our ship was berthed in the Todd shipyards on Staten Island for three months while it underwent repairs and was readied for an Atlantic crossing and in that interim our crew was moved to a ‘safe house’ in the Seagate area of Coney Island."

Aryeh Leon Malkin, Menachem Moskowitz Peretz, Zeev Rauff, Dov Seligman Smilansky and Mordecai Blockman Barkan, members of kibbutz Daled, later kibbutz Ein Dor קיבוץ עין דור, volunteered to serve on the Canadian corvette, HMCS Beauharnois יאשיהו ווג'ווד Josiah Wedgwood.

In April, 1946, Aryeh Leon Malkin served as crew, sailed from the Port of New York aboard HMCS Beauharnois יאשיהו ווג'ווד Josiah Wedgwood.

In April, 1946, David Gottlieb served as crew, sailed from the Port of New York aboard HMCS Beauharnois יאשיהו ווג'ווד Josiah Wedgwood.
David Gottlieb cites: "The ship’s chief engineer was a Swede with a passionate dislike for the British, and the ship’s cook was a big Canadian with fiery red hair and beard to match. But, the most memorable crew member was the boatswain, a fat, self-admitted “Jewish hobo,” who formerly had worked on a Hudson River barge. This man later saved my life during a violent storm near the Azores."