Lansky, Tatiana (Tania)
Daughter of Valerie and Olga. Tatiana (Tania) was born in the Soviet Union, Tashkent, on the 18th of Kislev, 5767 (18.6.1987). Was the youngest child in the family, a sister to Vicky. When she was seven, in 1994, the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Ashdod. “Tania was an excellent student, funny and full of joy,” says her family. She graduated from high school and enlisted in military service as a compulsory guard in the Israel Prison Service. After the liberation, Tanya chose to enlist in a regular service in the Israel Prison Service and was placed in the Nafha prison as a security guard. At the same time she studied for a bachelor’s degree in Criminology. She held a number of positions and the last was a sergeant. Tania fell in the Carmel disaster. On Thursday, 25 Kislev, on the 2 nd of December 2010, a forest fire burned on Mount Carmel, always green. The fire, known as the “Carmel disaster”, the largest in the country’s history, destroyed a forest, grove and residential buildings in a large area of the Carmel Park and surrounding communities. About seventeen thousand people were evicted from their homes, close to twenty-five thousand dunams and millions of trees burned. About a third of Kibbutz Beit Oren houses went up in flames and dozens of other homes in the Ein Hod Artists Village and the Yemin Orde Youth Village. Only three days later did the fire abate. In the hours following the outbreak of the fire, strong winds blew the flames, which quickly spread to the Hik River, the Har Alon reserve, Damon Prison, Shukf Mountain Nature Reserve and Kibbutz Beit Oren. Due to grave concern for human life, it was decided to evacuate prisoners from Damon Prison and then to Carmel Prison. The officers’ bus and the officers of the officers’ training course of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), Class A. At 15:30, the cadets’ bus moved between ancient quarries and Beit Oren, followed by police cars. The fire broke through the walls of the bus, huge walls of fire blocked the traffic artery, seized everything, and at the peak of every shred of life, forty-four men and women perished, thirty-seven of them officers of the Prisons Service Officers, , Three firemen and three police officers, Tanya was twenty-three years old in the fall She was left to rest in the military cemetery in Ashkelon, leaving parents and a sister.
