Wiener, Rachel

Daughter of Rivka and Aharon, was born on July 24, 1928 in Berlin, the capital of Germany, when she immigrated to Israel with her family and settled in Tel Aviv, where she studied at the Moriah religious elementary school A member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement and a counselor in the Elitzur Association, Rachel joined the religious-Zionist youth movement Mikveh Israel, was a diligent and good student both in theory and in practical work.In the summer of 1945 Rachel joined the group of Teheran Children who merged With youth from Eretz Israel and with this group, she went to a training and recruitment program in Kfar Etzion in the Etzion Bloc. Rachel attended a seminar for counselors of the Youth Aliyat Hadar that took place in Jerusalem and when she finished her year-long course she asked her groupmates to study at a teachers’ seminary in Jerusalem so that she could teach her The children of the group in the future continued as long as it was possible to reach Jerusalem and leave the convoys, but when the connection with the capital returned to the village and integrated into his daily life and his protection. She was among the first girls to go out to guard the posts and the spotlight. In the attacks on Kfar Etzion she stayed with the wounded in the cellar under the monastery and worked coldly with her friends in caring for the wounded, preparing food and bringing it to the fighters. In conversations with her and in her letters, she always expressed her faith in the salvation of God, but at the same time made herself a weapon in case she fell into the hands of the enemy. On the 4th of Iyar 5708 (13.5.1948), Rachel was killed in the ruins of the monastery, which was blown up by the enemy, and on that day her lover Ya’akov Citrin fell on the day of the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) The other victims of the Gush, to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.