Reicher Katzir, Miriam
Daughter of Gita-Margareta and Mordechai, she was born in Orsova, Romania, on April 6, 1922. She attended elementary school and high school in the city of Timisoara, where she spent a happy childhood in her parents’ home, where she received nationalist sensibilities. In the spring of 1940 she went with other girls of her age to the long and dangerous journey through Arab countries to Eretz Israel, where she was accepted to study at the Nahalal school for girls. She did not like it there, and she left school and joined Kibbutz Evron, and in 1942 she was sent by her kibbutz to Lahazi. She quickly became a confident wife. She was married to Eliezer Katzir (Lida), a member of the Eretz Israel integration group who joined the kibbutz. Her life dream was to go to school to expand her horizons in order to better serve the society in which she lives. When the rest of the kibbutz joined Miri in the Haganah, she held guard and protection duties on the farm that was attacked on April 4, 1948 by the Kaukji army. On 23 Kislev, December 25, 1948, Mishmar Ha’emek was bombed from the air, and Miri was wounded in the ninth month of her pregnancy. She was laid to rest at the cemetery in Mishmar Ha’emek. Her name was commemorated in the book “In Memory of the Martyrs of Kibbutz Artzi”.
