![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. Their mission was to aid the Jews in Czechoslovakia, where they were caught by the Nazis and executed. Palestine, before September 1944.
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