Vera Ducas was born to a Jewish family in Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia

History of the Jews in the Czech Republic

Jews in the Czech Republic are predominantly Ashkenazic Jews, and the current Jewish population is only a fraction of the First republic's Jewish population. As of 2005, there were approximately 4,000 Jews living in the Czech Republic. There are ten small Jewish communities all around the country...

. She fled the 1939 Nazi invasion

German occupation of Czechoslovakia

German occupation of Czechoslovakia began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's pretext for this effort was the alleged privations suffered by...

 with her husband and child. They lived in Turkey

Turkey

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 for several years before arriving in Palestine

Palestine

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. She didn't speak Hebrew and was unable to find work and is alleged to have become an informer for the British CID.

She was kidnapped from one of the main cafes of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter 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.