Zessler, Israel-Abba

Son of Rivka Rachel and Yaakov Aharon. He was born on July 8, 1919, in Jerusalem, where he studied at the “Hadar” and then went on to study in the yeshiva. In 1936. With the outbreak of the bloody riots in Israel, Israel was one of the first volunteers to save the Jewish families who lived on the borders of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and went into exile in the city of Jaffa to save Jewish property. He later joined the Nutras. In 1938 he served for a period in the Betar enlistment unit in Rosh Pina where he joined the ranks of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, and at the outbreak of World War II he was one of the first conscripts to join the British army and fought in the front of Greece. In the port city of Kalamata, for two years, he wandered from prison camp to camp, passing through all the sections of hell of the Nazi captivity, but his spirit was not broken and in the most difficult circumstances he preserved his personal honor and his people’s honor and his belief in the final victory over the enemy. During the work, a Nazi foreman harassed him and began to humiliate him, demanding that the German stop his curses and when When they told the camp commandant about the incident, a German soldier went to the mine to shoot the dying prisoner in order to cover up the fact that civilians had murdered a prisoner of war. (25.2.1943) and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Krakow, Poland. His name was immortalized in the books “In the chains of captivity” and in “Their memory is eternal.” An investigation conducted in 2017 revealed that his other name was Israel-Abba. Location Tomb 2A10 Unit Royal Corps Of Signals Age 23 Rank Driver.