Abramovitz (Cohen), Fania

Daughter of Rachel and Shlomo Cohen. Born in 1912 in Lida, Poland, she immigrated to Israel with her parents and grandmother in 1936. She began working in an industrial factory in Netanya and moved to Tel Aviv in 1939. In 1939 she joined the Haganah and served in various positions. In 1940, she began working for IMI and accepted all the work she needed, including dangerous tasks, said her co-worker in IMI: “The work that was submitted to us was carried out by each of us in the best effort and in all our physical abilities. Not her face. She was able to do more than she could, and above that of the defendant, with devotion that would not be followed. “The company also spoke of the moments of discouragement in their monotonous work:” Then came this, her noble face, and at the right moment she knew how to raise tension. In 1941, Fania married a member of the Haganah, the painter Pinhas Abramowitz, but her life as a wife was severed in her father’s work. In her work at Givat Rambam, she worked on adapting “Tosafot (“Accelerators”) to the “Polish” grenade that was then in the middle of its production. Her face excelled in amazing production productivity until the explosion that took place on the 27th of Cheshvan 5704 (25.11.1943) during the work. She was seriously injured but her main concern was not to be discovered by British security personnel. She was taken to the hospital where she died of her wounds. Her face was brought to eternal rest in the inheritance of Isaac. Her death was disguised as an “Primus explosion”. She assumed a husband. An article in her memory was published in the book “Pirkei Taas”.