Politzer (Weiss), Berta

Daughter of Ama and Carl. She was born on March 6, 1913 in Berlin, Germany. Her father was a pharmacist, and her mother was a social worker. Berta graduated from elementary school and high school in her hometown. In 1933 she immigrated to Eretz Israel. She had a strong inclination toward art, so she studied painting at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, as well as in the training center of the “Farm of Women Workers”. In addition, she studied with Hermann Struck. In 1943 she enlisted in the British Women’s Auxiliary Corps and served in Egypt as a nurse. During her service she presented some of her paintings in two exhibitions in Cairo. She was killed in a car accident when she was on her way to Israel at the end of the war, on 10 Elul (19.8.1945), and was buried in the cemetery in Heliopolis, Cairo. She was immortalized in the book “The Volunteer Book” and in the “Yizkor Book” of the Jabotinsky Institute.