Tertner, Akiva

Son of Rivka and Nachman, born in Breslau, Germany. In 1933, after the Nazis came to power in Germany, he immigrated with his family of eight to Eretz Israel. At nineteen years old, he joined the third battalion of the Palestine infantry, later part of the brigade. On the 21st of Av, August 22, 1943, he fell while serving in the Sperand camp (today Zerifin). A year and three months later, his younger brother, Asher, who was active in the underground of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, was killed by a British policemen while he was affixing proclamations on behalf of the organization. In 1997 their bones were transferred for burial on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. His name is commemorated in “The Book of the Press” in 1946, in “The Book of Volunteerism” and in the book “Yizkor” of the Jabotinsky Institute.