Blanc (Potash), Tova

Daughter of Samuel. Was born in November 1914 in Mishnitz, Poland, to a religious family. In her youth she joined the Hechalutz Hatzair movement, where she went to the Grochow village near Warsaw and in 1935 immigrated to Eretz Israel. At first she worked as an assistant to a kindergarten teacher, and after her marriage she and her husband left for training in the “Nota and Boneh” camp near Kiryat Binyamin. Her training group was about to settle in Moshav Moledet. She also joined the ranks of the Haganah. On May 18, 1939, the camp was attacked by a gang of Arabs. At the sound of the shots, Tova went out to look for her husband who had been guarding the place that night and then was shot and killed on the spot. She was laid to rest in the Haifa cemetery. She left a husband.