Colin, Bronia

She was born in 1911 in Zwierce, Poland, and as a child she and her sister were orphaned by their parents and Bronia was entrusted with family support and her sister’s education. In 1931 she immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined Kibbutz Ein HaKoreh near Rishon LeZion. During the first months of her stay in the kibbutz, she was injured in her eye She suffered from intense pain but bravely persevered. Her sister, who remained in Poland, was widowed from her husband and had three children, and Bronia felt that she needed her support, and she was forced to leave the kibbutz and get work in the cooperative restaurant of the workers in Tel Aviv. On 26 Av, August 14, 1936, she traveled to rest in a convalescent home in the Carmel Forest, where her car, accompanied by three guards, passed by the Arab village of Damon, A number of volleys were fired at the car. All the passengers, including Bronia, were killed on the spot. She was laid to rest in the Haifa cemetery. Lists of her books were published in “Blood and Fire,” “1936 Events” and “In Memory of the Martyrs of the Carmel Forests”.