Ashrovitz, Alexander (row)

Son of Leah and Joseph, was born on April 21, 1906, in Kazan on the Volga River in Russia, in an area where there were only a few Jews with special privileges. In his early years he taught a minimal Jewish education and general Russian education. During the civil war that broke out after the First World War, his parents succeeded in going to Danzig, where he continued his high school studies and joined the pioneering Zionist youth movement “Blach-Weiss”. In 1925 he joined Hehalutz and Brit HaOlim in Germany and went out to the village for agricultural training. He later joined the founders of the Herut group, the first organized group in Hechalutz in Germany. Alexander was recognized as an active and active force devoted to the great task of Lev and soul, seeking his happiness and satisfaction in a pioneering life of fulfillment in Israel. He was elected to the Hechalutz Center and when his group immigrated to Israel in 1929 and laid the foundation for Kibbutz Givat Brenner, they delayed him for another two years in the service of the movement in Germany. In 1931 he also joined the kibbutz and joined Givat Brenner. He worked in the kibbutz and was active in the secretariat and the Haganah and a member of the executive committee of the Rehovot Workers’ Council. In 1936 he went to Germany on behalf of the kibbutz and the Histadrut, organized training groups and worked to organize the departure of German Jews, especially in the transfer of groups of pioneers from Nazi Germany to training in neighboring countries (Lithuania, Denmark, Holland, etc.). When he returned to Eretz Israel in 1938, he was sent to a national course for commanders on behalf of the Hagana, and later was appointed commander of Givat Brenner. When disturbances broke out against the Jews of Germany in November 1938, they were called back to foreign service. He went on a mission to the United Kibbutz Movement in Germany and was involved mainly in the organization of illegal immigration. When he returned in 1939 he was appointed secretary of Givat Brenner and later sent on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Histadrut to serve as a member of the secretariat of the Tel Aviv Workers’ Council. Although his detachment from the agriculture was to his displeasure, he fulfilled his duties in favor of the individual and the community with sincere devotion, which was felt in his action and in his attitude toward those who came into contact with him. In 1942 he was assigned new tasks in kibbutz life, as a member of the security committee of Hakibbutz Hameuchad and a member of the Palmach training committee in his communities, and in 1947 he was returned to the secretariat of the Tel Aviv Workers’ Council and to the regional headquarters of the Haganah in Tel Aviv. A representative of the Tel Aviv Workers’ Council at the recruitment center for the service of the people and was released to participate in the fighting, but at the same time serving in the army, in the “Kiryati” Brigade, continued to carry public duties on July 21, 1948, Yemzu, on the son of Shemen-Latrun route, and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Givat Brenner, leaving behind a wife and three children, after which he was awarded the rank of Major.