Haviva Reick: "How a Holocaust heroine is finally written into the annals of history"

Here is a must read article about the Remember the Women Institute and the untold story of Haviva Reick who fought to save Allied pilots shot down behind enemy lines during World War II:

     The parachutist stood at the door of an American supply plane, wavy hair tucked underneath her helmet. Haviva Reick prepared herself to jump behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Europe to rescue Allied pilots taken prisoner of war and organize the 1944 Slovak uprising, an armed insurrection against the Nazis by resistance fighters.
     Without hesitation or reservation she stepped off. The jump would be her last.
     Born in 1914 as Marta Reick in the small village Nadabula in Slovakia, she joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. She loved zipping around the village on a motorcycle, an act that defied societal expectations for women in the 1920s and 1930s.

A film is in the works to tell this story. Two things of note in the article are the dwindling number of people who lived through this era and why many acts of courage by women during that war are overlooked.