Vera Weizmann

Vera Weizmann

Vera Weizmann (born November 27, 1881 in Rostov , Russian Empire , † September 24, 1966 in London ) was a Russian-British-Israeli doctor, Zionist activist and wife of the first President of Israel Chaim Weizmann .

Life

Vera Weizmann was born as Vera Chazmann in the Russian city of Rostov and studied medicine at the University of Geneva . After her marriage to Chaim Weizmann , the future first President of Israel, in 1906 the couple lived in the English city of Manchester until 1937 , where Vera Weizmann worked as a pediatrician from 1913 to 1916 . During the First World War , she and her husband became a scientific advisor for chemistry in the British Admiralty . The couple had two sons. The younger son Michael served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was shot down over the Bay of Biscay .

In 1920 she was one of the founders of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) and was its president for 40 years, alternating with Rebecca Sieff . At the beginning of the Second World War , she set up a branch of the Child and Youth Aliyah in England and later headed this organization in Israel as Honorary President.

Vera Weizmann took care of the treatment and rehabilitation of wounded soldiers during the Israeli War of Independence . She was also active in numerous other charitable organizations, such as the "Israeli Red Cross" Magen David Adom , of which she was a co-founder.

She died in London in 1966.

Publications

• The impossible takes longer: the memoirs of Vera Weizmann, wife of Israel's first President, as told to David Tutaev . London, 1967.

Web links

Commons : Vera Weizmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Vera Weizmann, Widow of Israel's First President, Dead at 87. In: Jewish Telegraphic Agency : Daily News Bulletin. Vol. 33, No. 183, September 26, 1966.
2. ^ Robert Uri Kaufmann: Chaim Weizmann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 7, 2013, accessed May 2, 2019 .