Federman, Pnina

Daughter of Amanda and Shemi Weiss, was born on 23.1.1914 in Frankfurt, Germany, to a traditional and wealthy family. Her father educated her in the spirit of the vision of redemption and the ideas of Zionism. Pnina attended high school from the Jewish community and began studying at the university. When she was 16, she joined Betar, and in 1933, with the Nazis, she moved with her parents to Belgium, where her father published her journal “Unzer-Zukunft” (“Our Future”), A year later the family moved to Holland, while the girl disappeared from her parents, and Pnina returned to Belgium and married David Federman. In 1935 the couple immigrated to Israel. Due to their activity in the movement, they wandered from country to village in the moshavot – the south. Pnina founded a branch of a health fund in the Montefiore neighborhood, established a restaurant for the national worker in Be’er Ya’akov, and served as a counselor and educator in Beitar Rishon Letzion, where her home served as a headquarters and a committee for members of the movement. When David was captured by the British and exiled to Eritrea, Pnina continued to stand alone in the campaign, when she also had to educate and support her two small sons, and moved to live in the inheritance of Judah and her house served as a haven for the fighters persecuted by the British And the “organized Yishuv”, refugees and illegal immigrants Even when she and her family were harassed by boxers, Pnina fell on Sunday, February 11, 1948, when a car in which she was traveling to take a public position For the families of the Hebrew prisoners, she boarded a mine. The man who came to look after her said, “You’d better take care of the others, I’m lost anyway.” She was 34 when she died. She left a husband and two children – Ehud and Ami. She was laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery. Pnina was immortalized in the books “Zachremam Netzach”, the memorial book for the fallen of the Irgun, “Shiva entered the Pardes” and “Nahalat Yehuda”.