Haviva Reik

Haviva Reik
Born
Marta Reick

(1914-06-22)22 June 1914
Nadabula (now a part of Rožňava), Slovakia
Died20 November 1944(1944-11-20) (aged 30)[1]
Kremnička (near Banská Bystrica), Slovakia
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service / branchWAAF
Years of service1942 – 1944
RankSergeant
Service number2992503
UnitMI9
Battles / warsWorld War II

Haviva Reik (alternately Haviva Reick, Havivah Reich, Chaviva Reiková or Chaviva Reich) (22 June 1914 – 20 November 1944) was one of 32 or 33 parachutists sent by the Jewish Agency and Britain's MI9 on military missions in Nazi-occupied Europe. Reik went to Slovakia in fall 1944 and worked with local Jewish people to resist the German occupation there. She established a camp for Russian prisoners of war who had escaped, and helped organize a Jewish resistance unit.[2] The Germans organized forces to put down the Jewish resistance, and Reik and the other parachutists escaped with about 40 local Jews into the mountains. In November 1944, however, Reik and the other parachutists were captured, killed, and buried in a mass grave.[3]

  1. ^ Gilbert 2004, p. 611.
  2. ^ Sachar 2005, p. ?.
  3. ^ "Jewish Slovak Paratroopers | 1950s Photo Archive". Unreich. Retrieved 2021-05-02.