REIK, ḤAVIVAH

REIK, ḤAVIVAH
REIK, ḤAVIVAH (Emma; 1914–1944), one of four haganah envoys from Palestine parachuted into Slovakia during World War II. Ḥavivah Reik was born into a working-class family in a small Slovak village near Banská Bystrica . She settled in Palestine in 1939, joining the Ha-Shomer ha-Ẓa'ir kibbutz Ma'anit. During the critical days of the war she volunteered to be parachuted into Slovakia. She was to reach Bratislava and establish contact with the "Working Group" (see gisi fleischmann ) but arrived too late. In mid-September 1944, she reached Banská Bystrica, where she assisted the Jewish remnant that had gathered there. On October 28, when Banská Bystrica (the center of the Slovak uprising) fell, she retreated into the mountains along with a group of Jewish fighters. Captured by Germans a week later, she was imprisoned and executed on November 20, 1944, in Kremnička. Kibbutz Lahavot Ḥavivah, the Israel freighter Ḥavivah Reik, and the research and educational center Givat Ḥavivah in Israel were named in her memory. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: D. and P. Bar-Adon, Seven who Fell (1947), 141–9. (Livia Rothkirchen)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Reik, Havivah (Emma) — (1914–44)    Parachutist heroine. At the age of twentyfive, Havivah Reik emigrated to Palestine from her native Slovakia and joined kibbutz Ma’anit. In 1944 she was one of four volunteers parachuted into Nazi occupied Slovakia on a sabotage and… …   Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament

  • Reik, Havivah — (1914 44)    Palestinian resistance fighter of Slovak birth. She settled in Palestine in 1939. In 1944 she volunteered to join the allied forces as a parachutist. She was dropped into Poland, where she organized radio communica tions with the… …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

  • Haviva Reik — (Chaviva Reich, Havivah Reich) (1914 1944) fut l’un des 32 (ou 33) parachutistes Juifs Palestiniens que l’Agence juive et le Special Operations Executive ont envoyés de Palestine en Europe pour des missions militaires dans les pays occupés par… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Haviva Reik — (Chaviva Reich, Havivah Reich) (1914–1944) was one of thirty two (or thirty three) Palestinian Jewish parachutists sent by the Jewish Agency and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from Palestine on military missions in Nazi occupied Europe.… …   Wikipedia

  • CZECHOSLOVAKIA — CZECHOSLOVAKIA, republic in Central Europe. Founded in 1918, it united within its political framework the Jewries of the historic countries (bohemia , moravia , and part of silesia ), connected with the hapsburg Empire from 1526 and under its… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • BANSKA BYSTRICA — (Hg. Besztercebánya; Ger. Neusohl), town in Slovakia. As Banska Bystrica was a mining town and settled partially by ethnic Germans, Jews were not permitted to live there until 1858. The Jewish congregation was established in 1868. The… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”