Vera Ducas
Vera Ducas (1912 – 29 March 1948) was born to a Jewish family in Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia. She fled the 1939 Nazi invasion with her husband and child. They lived in Turkey for several years before arriving in Palestine. She didn't speak Hebrew and was unable to find work and is alleged to have become an informer for the British CID.[1]
She was kidnapped from one of the main cafes of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter[2] and her body found on a patch of waste ground, shot through the head. It was reported that the Stern Gang had announced that they had killed her, accusing her of spying for the British.[3][4]
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- ^ Harry Levin, 'Jerusalem Embattled', Cassel, London, 1997. ISBN 0-304-33765-X, text copyright 1950, p.191
- ^ The Scotsman on Sunday 29 March 1948
- ^ Eric Downton, The Scotsman, Monday 30 March 1948
- ^ Levin's diary p.191, 21 May, refers to seeing old posters in Jerusalem announcing her execution, these he attributes to Etzel, (Irgun).
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- Jews in Mandatory Palestine
- People from Jerusalem
- People of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- 1912 births
- 1948 deaths
- Women in warfare post-1945
- Women in war in the Middle East