Visser, Pnina (Shprintza)

Daughter of Hanna Rizel and Eliyahu Glogowski. She was born in 1908 in Sokolka, Poland. She was a member of the “Hashomer Hatzair” pioneering youth movement and immigrated to Eretz Israel as a pioneer in 1932. In 1933 she established a family and built her home in Tel Aviv. With the outbreak of World War II she volunteered as a defense company for the Civil Guard, which was established at the time as a means of warning against the Italian bombing of the cities of the country. In this position she was manning a telephone booth and giving orders to activate the sirens. In one of the bombardments, on 10 Elul, 10 September 1940, she was hit by a direct hit and her husband was also injured while her daughter, who was playing in the courtyard, miraculously survived. Buried in the mlitary cemetery of Nahalat Yitzhak, she left a husband and daughter, parents and two brothers, and was remembered with the rest of those killed in the bombardment in the booklet “Yediot Tel Aviv”.