The bodies of three Palestine Jews who were killed by the Germans after having been parachuted into Slovakia in 1944 to aid the Slovak uprising of that year were disinterred this week and removed to Prague where they were reburied in the British War Heroes Cemetery. The three were Chaviva Reik, Jizchak ben Jakov and Rafi Reis.
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