Haviva Reik

Biography - Haviva Reik (Chaviva Reich)

Chaviva Reik - Haviva Reich - Zionist Partisan Heroine of World War IIHaviva Reik (Chaviva Reich or Havivah Reich) ((1914-1944), Haviva Reik was one of 32 or 33  Palestinian Jewish parachutists from Palestine sent by the Jewish Agency and the British army Special Operations Executive on military and  missions in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Haviva (Emma) Reik was born in the Slovakian village of Shayo Hasso, and grew up in  Banska- Bystrica in the Carpathian mountains. She  joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement there.In 1939 she came on Aliya (immigrated) to Palestine, where she joined Kibbutz Ma'anit and later enlisted in the Palmach, the elite strike force branch of the Haganah  underground military organization. She joined the new parachutists' unit.

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