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Vodka and jewelry saved her from the train.
In her difficult life journey, this was just the beginning
Ola Plonski survived the Aktions in the Warsaw ghetto as a child, and left to hide with Polish families.
After losing her parents in those years, she immigrated to Israel and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Megiddo.
During the Yom Kippur War, another tragedy befell her when her eldest son was killed in a battle for the Hermon outpost.
She died at the age of 92 this week
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Eli Ashkenazi
Saturday, December 12, 2020, 10:00 p.m.
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In the video: Testimony of Holocaust survivor Alexandra (Ola) Plonsky, who passed away (Photo: Yad Vashem)
Alexandra (Ola) Plonsky saw many pains in her life, which included a struggle for survival in the Warsaw ghetto, a life in hiding, the loss of her parents and mourning for her son, who fell in battle for the conquest of Mount Hermon.
At the same time, her family says that she clung to life, full of vitality, optimism and humor, and was a nurse, a dedicated worker and an active member of Kibbutz Megiddo, who was one of its founders.
"A woman who lived a full life and fulfilled most of her dreams," her granddaughter, Adi Rice, described her.
Plonsky passed away this week at the age of 92.
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"Fulfilled most of her dreams."
Ola Plonsky (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
Ola was born in 1929 in Warsaw to Mira and Dr. Harunim Bradwin, seven years after her older sister, Janina (Yesha). The family lives financially well. The father worked as a gynecologist, and the mother ran her family's real estate business.
However, the happy childhood was interrupted at once, when World War II broke out.
She was then ten years old.
Her father, who served as a doctor with the rank of officer in the Polish army, was drafted into military service, and has not been seen by family members since.
He was captured by the Russian army, and executed.
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Ola remained in Warsaw with her mother and sister, and their condition worsened: the girls' studies were stopped;
Expensive valuables in the pavilion were confiscated by the Germans;
The mother lost her source of livelihood;
And the economic situation of the daughters of the family deteriorated.
Following this, the mother transferred the furniture to the Polish maid, who sold it for the family.
The money received from that sale helped the mother and her daughters survive for two years during which they lived in the Jewish ghetto, to which they were transferred in early 1941. They lived there with three relatives: the uncle, his wife and their daughter, Shula.
"In Warsaw they were happy when the war ended, I started crying"
When the great Aktions began, in which many of the ghetto's Jews were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp, the Bradwin family managed to hide.
However, one day they were caught.
Ola and her sister, who was in a crowd of deportees concentrated Umschlagplatz (Square deportations from the Warsaw ghetto camps), succeeded thanks to the resourcefulness to escape to a nearby hospital where he worked their uncle, Dr. brandwine, and with a bribe of vodka and jewelry given by the German soldiers, they were returned to our apartment in the ghetto.
Is Mira realized that such miracles would not happen again, and decided to do everything possible to get the girls out of the ghetto. Janina moved to the other side and managed to survive thanks to her Aryan appearance. She and her husband risked their lives to hide the two girls, until another hiding place was found for them. The woman hid them in her bed for two weeks, and took them out into the street for only half an hour at night to breathe. In March 1943 Ola was transferred to another Polish family, the Dubrowska family. Children and adopted her.
Last-minute escapes.
Jews boarding carriages in the Transport Square in Warsaw, 1942-1943 (Photo: Nachlat HaCallel)
When the war ended, Ola returned to Warsaw, and after nearly three years of separation, met her sister.
Later they also found their cousin, Shula.
The three realized that the parents of Shula and an artist of Ola Vinnina had been killed during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
"In Warsaw he was happy, music was playing. I went out and instead of rejoicing with everyone, I started crying because I thought: this is the end of the war, will it be the same again as before? We will return home to father and mother? The war is over and we have no one," Yad Vashem "On the Day of the End of the War.
Courts with the tractor
Ola and Shula joined a children's home established by the Zionist movement for war orphans, and in 1948 immigrated to Israel.
Two years later, Yunina also joined them.
At first, upon arrival, Ola was sent to Kibbutz Maabarot, but a short time later, in March 1949, she arrived at Kibbutz Megiddo, a month after she landed.
There she volunteered to set up the Megiddo coop branch, and was sent to a grueling six months of training in a Kibbutz Sarid coop.
Then love began to blossom between her and York, also one of the founders of Kibbutz Megiddo.
"Instead of rejoicing with everyone, I started crying."
Ola Plonsky (Photo: Yad Vashem)
York (David) Plonsky, also a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw, was among the "cigarette sellers in the Square of the Three Crosses," a group of children who roamed the city pretending to be non-Jews, and their story was told in the famous book written by Yosef Zmian of the same name.
As he was well acquainted with all the crossings from the Aryan side to the ghetto, he smuggled food and weapons to the fighters there.
Later, as a 17-year-old boy, he took part in a revolt in April 1943. With the liquidation of the ghetto, he went out to the Aryan side through the sewer system, and later returned through the canals to remove the remnants of the fighters from his group.
He lost his entire family in the war.
York, a field crop worker, would come with the tractor to Sarid to see Ola, who at first did not yet realize that he was courting her, until he told her he loved her and kept thinking about her.
The two married, and over the years their three children were born: Eitan, Mira and Nava.
Came with the tractor specifically to see her.
York and Ola Plonsky (Photo: courtesy of the family)
A few years later, Ola went to study "nursing" at Hasharon Hospital.
Her studies forced her to be away from home for about two years, and she only met her two young children on weekends.
Later, she continued her studies and was recognized as a registered nurse, after completing her training at Haemek Hospital in Afula.
Returning to the kibbutz, she was Megiddo's nurse, and her job included visits, distribution of food and medicine to patients in their homes, escorting to the hospital and more.
It was a demanding job, with no time limits, but she loved the task she took on, and fulfilled it with great dedication.
The house shatters to pieces
During the Yom Kippur War, in October 1973, the family was shaken: Eitan, the eldest son of Ola and York, who was a combat medic in the Golani Regiment, was killed during the battles for the conquest of Mount Hermon.
For his part in the battle, he was awarded a commendation by Chief of Staff Mordechai (Mota) Gur. "When Eitan heard that the lieutenant colonel and the liaison were wounded, he ran forward to treat them, despite the heavy fire that was fired on the place," the decision said.
"One of the fighters tried to stop him, on the grounds that he had no chance of reaching the scene because of enemy fire, but Sgt. Eitan-Zvi Plonsky replied that it was his duty to treat the wounded, and continued to move towards them;
When he approached them, he was hit in the head by a bullet and killed. "The
couple gathered in pain and for several years did not participate in holidays and events on the kibbutz." After Eitan was killed, the house shattered to pieces, "said the granddaughter, Adi. She said she could no longer care for others and hear about their pain while she was so in pain over the loss of her son. Instead, she started working in the health department of the national kibbutz. When the kibbutz's accounting was computerized, she started working there, and continued to do so until she was 80 years old. .
Ola Plonsky with her three children, Eitan, Mira and Nava (Photo: courtesy of the family)
She found solace in her grandchildren.
"When the first granddaughter was born, the joy of life managed to return home and family," Adi said.
"We, the grandchildren, were very attached to them, and it filled Grandma with life and allowed her to continue to a happy and alive and optimistic place, and to rejoice in the essence of being a grandmother and head of a family. It was important to her children and grandchildren to acquire education, professions and degrees." One test, and she would call to encourage and support, "she added.
Alongside this, Ola was involved in the life of Kibbutz Megiddo and the community;
She was the secretary of the kibbutz, a member of various committees and showed great interest in the daily life and various processes that the place went through.
When the privatization of the kibbutz began, she expressed support for it, and saw it as a process of development and renewal.
"The family filled Grandma Haim" (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
"Grandma was a noble, smart and intellectual woman. She was funny and with a special sense of humor and a bit cynical," her granddaughter said of her, adding that "she was an elegant woman who kept beautiful clothes."
She also noted that her grandmother "followed the news and cared deeply about political processes and the state."
This week she passed away and was buried in the cemetery of Kibbutz Megiddo.
She is survived by two daughters, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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