Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Marta Reik grew up in Banská Bystrica, in the Carpathian Mountains Karpaty.

In 1938, after the annexation of Slovakia by Hungary, Marta Reik became involved, through the Jewish National Fund and the Zionist Organization of Slovakia, in rescue efforts to get Slovakian Jews to Palestine.

The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) asked the Palmach if they could supply people for special operations in Central Europe.
Chaviva Reik joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), serving as 2992503 ACW.2 'Ada Robinson', attended SOE specialist training, including a parachuting course.
She was promoted to Sergeant, and assumed another new name, Martha Martinovic.

As part of Operation Amsterdam מבצע אמסטרדם, Chaviva Reik, and Stephan Rafael Reisz (serving as769472 Sgt. S. Rice, RAFVR), Zvi Ben-Yaakov, and Haim Hermesh (Kassaf) waited in Bari, to be parachuted into Slovakia.
On September 15, 1944, the three men parachuted into Slovakia. but the British authorities refused to parachute a woman behind enemy lines for a military operation.
On September 17, 1944, Chaviva Reick hitched a ride with a group of American pilots flying to Banská Bystrica.
On September 21, 1944, she joined up with her group.
At the end of September, 1944, a fifth parachutist, Abba Berdiczew, joined them, bringing radio equipment.
The paratroopers evacuated 60 soldiers and officers of the United States and British Armies.
In late October, 1944, when the Germans occupied Banska-Bystrica, Chaviva Reik and her group of parachutists escaped with 40 Jewish participants and built a camp in the mountains
They were captured after a few days by Ukrainian SS troops of the Galicia Division, and three of the parachutists were interrogated, tortured and sentenced to death as spies.

Chaviva Reik was thrown in a mass grave, along with 250 other Jews and Gypsies, but after the war her body was identified and transferred by the British, to a military cemetery in Prague.

The bones of Chaviva Reik were transferred from the cemetery in Prague, and buried in Israel.