Tartner, Asher

The fifth son of Rivka and Nachman. He was born on July 29, 1926 in Breslau, Germany. He began studying in a Jewish school in his city, and after the Nazis came to power in Germany, he immigrated to Israel with his eight-year-old family, who was eight years old. The family, which was national-religious, settled in Kfar Hasidim near Haifa. In the village, Asher graduated elementary school and as an outstanding student he even “jumped” a class. Afterward he continued to study at Yeshivat HaYeshuv HaChadash at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in Kfar HaRoeh, completed his studies at the Ma’aleh School of Commerce and began studying in the evening at the Even-Pina high school in Haifa. He joined the ranks of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), and was active in the “Hatam” (the “Propaganda Corps”). On October 16, 1944, when he was affixing leaflets on behalf of the Irgun with another member of the underground on Hassan Shukri Street in Haifa, the two were discovered by a British guard who opened fire on them, and Asher, who was shot in the thigh, was taken to the center. He was interrogated there brutally without any medical treatment, and the next day he was transferred to Akko Prison for further investigation, his healthy leg was tied with iron chains to his bed and again interrogated by the British, but except for his name and address, After the British could not obtain information from him about the underground, they transferred him to the government hospital The doctors on the spot did much to save him, but even after they had to amputate his wounded leg, they could not save his life, and he died on the day of the 23rd of Cheshvan 5705 (November 8, 1944) and was buried in the cemetery In the village of Hasidim near his brother Akiva, who had fallen a year and three months earlier when he was a soldier in the Israeli regiments who were about to leave for Europe to fight the Nazi enemy and avenge what he had done to the Jews in occupied Europe. Israel fell one while preparing himself in British army uniform to go out to save the remnant of Israel from the Nazi oppressor and the second on Shahar And the Land of Israel from the British. In 1997 their bones were transferred for burial on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. His biography and the story of Asher’s death appear in the book “Remembering Netzach” in memory of fallen soldiers of the Irgun Zvai Leumi. A memorial room was also named after him at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in Kfar HaRoeh.