Haviva Reik was one of 32 Jewish parachutists from Palestine who volunteered to join the British army and infiltrate German-occupied Europe. Reik was sent to Slovakia on a mission to aid Jews during the Slovak national uprising. She was captured by the Germans and executed. She was 30 years old.
![Jewish parachutist Haviva Reik, before her emigration to Palestine. [LCID: 83754]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/360e8196-c1d8-4a6d-81f4-eab6a3d2f562.jpg "Jewish parachutist Haviva Reik, before her emigration to Palestine. [LCID: 83754]")
Haviva Reik before her emigration to Palestine. Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, 1934.
Between 1943 and 1945, a group of Jewish men and women from Palestine who had volunteered to join the British army parachuted into German-occupied Europe. Their mission was to organize resistance to the Germans and aid in the rescue of Allied personnel. Reik was one of these parachutists. She parachuted into Slovakia and was captured and killed in November 1944.
Item View![Jewish parachutist Haviva Reik before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia during the Slovak national uprising. [LCID: 38090]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/359e38d9-261d-4ea2-aa34-0c40031fabe6.jpg "Jewish parachutist Haviva Reik before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia during the Slovak national uprising. [LCID: 38090]")
Photograph of Jewish parachutist Haviva Reik taken before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia during the Slovak national uprising. Palestine, before September 1944.
Item View![Haviva Reik, a parachutist from Palestine, before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia. [LCID: 77526]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/143d39f5-a979-4f21-97a2-90498ac07a4e.jpg "Haviva Reik, a parachutist from Palestine, before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia. [LCID: 77526]")
Haviva Reik, a parachutist from Palestine, before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia. She was caught and executed by the Nazis. Palestine, probably before September 1944.
Item View![Zvi Ben-Yaakov (left) and Haviva Reik (center), Jewish parachutists under British command. [LCID: 83750]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c085401b-aba6-47af-a6ff-e926ca372422.jpg "Zvi Ben-Yaakov (left) and Haviva Reik (center), Jewish parachutists under British command. [LCID: 83750]")
Zvi Ben-Yaakov (left) and Haviva Reik (center), Jewish parachutists under British command. Their mission was to aid the Jews in Czechoslovakia, where they were caught by the Nazis and executed. Palestine, before September 1944.
Item View![Group of Jewish parachutists under British command including Haviva Reik (center), who was sent into Slovakia. [LCID: 83746]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/806b2f93-46df-4cd6-b024-00687037a224.jpg "Group of Jewish parachutists under British command including Haviva Reik (center), who was sent into Slovakia. [LCID: 83746]")
Group of Jewish parachutists under British command including Haviva Reik (center), who was sent into Slovakia. Palestine, wartime.
Item View![Haviva Reik and other parachutists from Palestine, under British command, sent to Slovakia to aid Jews during the Slovak national ... [LCID: 80829]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/01a56a57-3026-48c7-8b3e-b4fd332e77c7.jpg "Haviva Reik and other parachutists from Palestine, under British command, sent to Slovakia to aid Jews during the Slovak national ... [LCID: 80829]")
Haviva Reik and other parachutists from Palestine, under British command, sent to Slovakia to aid Jews during the Slovak national uprising. Hayim Hermesh (left), Haviva Reik (second from left), Rafi Reiss (behind Reik), Abba Berdichev (second from the right), and Zvi Ben-Yaakov (right), on the Tri Duby airfield before being sent to Slovakia. Czechoslovakia, September 1944.
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