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June 3, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050602-1217-austria-resistance.html

Exhibit Opens in Austria on Women Who Resisted the Nazis

(AP/San Diego Union-Tribune) Danica Kirka - An exhibit on women who defied the Nazis opened Thursday in Vienna, Austria, highlighting the efforts of resistance fighters and those who smuggled Jewish children to safety during World War II. The core of the exhibition, "Faces of Resistance: Women in the Holocaust," was drawn from Israel's Moreshet Archive, with a section added outlining resistance efforts in Austria. Haviva Reik emigrated from then-Czechoslovakia to Israel but felt compelled to return to Europe to fight the Nazis. Enlisting in a British parachute regiment, she eventually made her way back home and joined with partisan fighters, only to be executed. An Israeli educational institution - Givat Haviva - was founded in her memory and the group's branch in Austria helped organize the exhibition.

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