Rosenthal (Kruglin), Asher (Asik)
Son of Rachel and Baruch-Ya’akov, was born on August 11, 2222 in the city of Lonnitz, White Russia (Poland). He grew up in a wealthy home and graduated from a Polish high school. During the Second World War, he traveled to Russia and reached the steppes of Uzbekistan, where he worked in all sorts of jobs in the city and the village. After the Stalin-Sikorsky agreement he joined the Polish army, arrived with him in 1943, and immediately “deserted” his family name from Macrugli to Rosenthal. Who was accepted as a member of Kibbutz Gvat. He served in Notarot and joined the Haganah. Who joined the British Army, moved to the Jewish Brigade, and with him came to Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. He did for the refugees and there he learned that his family had been destroyed. After the war ended, he returned to work in the British army. In the wake of the many entreaties of his wealthy aunt in the United States to come to settle there, as the sole survivor of the great family, he finally agreed to visit her only. When the War of Independence broke out, he rejected the entreaties of his relatives to stay and returned to Israel aboard the “Marine Karp”. The ship docked at the port of Beirut and was taken with the other passengers from the ship at the port of Leshbi in Lebanon. Two months later, he was returned to New York and returned to Israel from the port. “The homeland is waiting for me, I missed a great deal and I have to hurry,” he told his friend. Immediately upon his arrival, he enlisted and served in the “Yiftach” Brigade and in its ranks, fought in the Negev. He fell in a battle in the Ruhama region on Wednesday, 7 October 1948. He was buried in Mishmar Hanegev, and was later laid to rest in the cemetery in Gvat.
