Pink, Miriam (Martha)

Daughter of Baruch Aryeh. Born in Vienna, Austria on March 11, 1919, her mother’s illness overwhelmed the life of the cheerful, golden-haired girl, but she grew up among good, benevolent people. After three months she had to wait in Egypt before the locked gates of the country, and only in September 1934 did she succeed in reaching her. She was too young and too soft for work, too mature for school, and first she applied for admission to the women ‘s industry She eventually came to the kibbutz in Hadera, but later left the kibbutz to study the nurse’s profession in which she invested immeasurably in love and devotion, while she worked nights. Wirh the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1936, ahw refused to abandon her role that involved danger. She was treated as a trainee at the Government Hospital in Jaffa. On 29 Av, August 17, 1936. when she arrived at her place of work, she was murdered along with her friend Nehama Tzedek by Arab rioters. At the time of the funeral, the shops in Tel Aviv were closed and tens of thousands of people, including representatives of the British Mandate government, accompanied the two on their way to the mass graves of the Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv riots. Miriam left a brother and aunt in the country, a mother and sister in Vienna. She was commemorated in “The Events of 1936” and in “Blood and Fire”.