Myer Mike Litwack

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: C12010
• Fact: Corporal
• Fact: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
• Occupation: Truck driver
• Residence: 8 Oct 1940, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Address:
  171 George Street
• Enlisted: 9 Oct 1940, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Obittuary: 31 Jul 1944, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; : 23y

Notes:

4th Armd. Div. Troops Coy.

Son of John and Dora Litwack, of Ottawa, Ontario.

Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .

Obittuary:
The Ottawa Citizen

Obituary – Mike Litwack is honoured on page 45 of the memorial book, CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties, compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact: The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives 1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada) telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 facsimile: 514-931-0548 website: www.cjc.ca

Buried:
BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
XIV. E. 12

Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.