Gintzler, Leah (Ruthie)

Daughter of Miriam and Mordechai. She was born in 1931 in a tent in Hungary, immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1935. The family settled in Tel Aviv, where Leah studied at the elementary school and at the Beit Yaakov high school. She was a quiet girl, but in view of the Holocaust of the Jews in Europe and the plight of the refugees, and in view of the British blocking the gates of the country to them by the British authorities, she could no longer sit idly by. She joined the Lehi underground and her underground name was Ruth. In November 1947 she took part in a training and weapons course held in Ra’anana, where a large British search group surprised the young people in the house they were training in. They tried to sneak through the back window, but the British opened fire on them and killed three girls and two boys. She fell on the 29th of Cheshvan 5708 (November 12, 1947) and was laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, where she left two parents and two sisters.