Haviva Reik
Haviva Reik · Heroes of Israel
Jewish parachutist of the Yishuv, executed after dropping into Slovakia to aid Jews (1944)
1914, Nadabula (now part of Rožňava), then Austria-Hungary — today Slovakia — 1944, Kremnička, near Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Mandatory Palestine / Slovakia
Haviva Reik is recognized among Israeli contributors to Heroes of Israel — Jewish parachutist of the Yishuv, executed after dropping into Slovakia to aid Jews (1944)
Haviva Reik was born Marta Reick in 1914 in Nadabula, in what is today Slovakia, and grew up in Banská Bystrica before making aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1939, where she joined kibbutz Ma'anit and then the Palmach. She was one of the 32 or 33 Jewish parachutists sent by the Jewish Agency together with British military intelligence into German-occupied Europe. In September 1944 she reached Banská Bystrica during the Slovak National Uprising, where she helped organise Jewish resistance, ran a soup kitchen and refugee centre, assisted children trying to escape and sheltered downed Allied airmen. When German forces overran the partisans' mountain camp she was captured and executed on 20 November 1944 at Kremnička; kibbutz Lehavot Haviva and the Givat Haviva institute carry her name.
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Jewish parachutist of the Yishuv, executed after dropping into Slovakia to aid Jews (1944)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haviva_Reik