Haviva Reik, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Haviva Reik

Jewish Slovakian resistance fighter

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1944

Profession: paratrooper

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Haviva Reik (alternately Haviva Reick, Havivah Reich, Chaviva Reiková or Chaviva Reich) (1914–1944) was one of 32 or 33 parachutists sent by the Jewish Agency and Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) 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.
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.