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'''Gola Mire/Mira''' (1911–1943) was a member of the [[Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe|Jewish resistance]] underground in [[Poland in World War II|Poland]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Mire Gola |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gola-mire |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Jewish Women's Archive |language=en}}</ref>
Mire was active in the
After the [[Invasion of Poland|German invasion of Poland]], Mire joined the [[Polish Workers' Party|Polish Worker's Party]] (PPR) and collaborated with Jewish resistance groups including the Akiva and Dror Zionist youth organizations. She helped to plan and implement attacks against the [[Nazi Germany|Germans]] and was ultimately killed during a prison escape attempt.<ref name=":0" />
Mire was born to a Jewish family in [[Rzeszów|Rzeszow]], a town in the [[Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)|Galicia]] region of [[Poland]]. She attended Polish schools.<ref name=":0" />
Mire became active in Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir as a teenager and was elected to a leadership role in the organization requiring her to move to [[Lvov, Poland|Lvov]]. She stayed behind in Poland when her parents moved to Belgium in 1932.<ref name=":0" />
=== Activism and resistance ===▼
▲Mire became active in Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir as a teenager and was elected to a leadership role in the organization requiring her to move to Lvov. She stayed behind in Poland when her parents moved to Belgium in 1932.<ref name=":0" />
Mire was expelled from Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir in 1932 due to her vocal support of the Communist Soviet Union. She joined the Communist Party in 1936 and organized a strike at the Kontakt factory, her place of employment. She was arrested for her role in the strike and served six months in prison. Upon her release, she organized Communist cells and activities in Przemysl for which she was arrested again and sentenced to twelve years in Fordon Prison. Guards at the prison fled upon news of the 1939 German invasion and outbreak of World War II. Mire and fellow prisoners escaped before the Germans arrived.<ref name=":0" />▼
=== Early activism and first imprisonment ===
▲Mire was expelled from Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir in 1932 due to her vocal support of the Communist [[Soviet Union]]. She joined the Communist Party in 1936 and organized a strike at the Kontakt factory, her place of employment. She was arrested for her role in the strike and served six months in prison. Upon her release, she organized Communist cells and activities in [[Przemyśl|Przemysl]] for which she was arrested again and sentenced to twelve years in Fordon Prison. Guards at the prison fled upon news of the 1939 German invasion of Poland and [[outbreak of World War II]]. Mire and fellow prisoners escaped before the Germans arrived.<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Gola Mire 02.jpg|thumb|Gola Mire and her family]]
Prior to her imprisonment, Mire had begun a relationship with fellow Communist Olek Hausman. After escaping, Mire traveled to [[Warsaw]] looking for Olek, but discovered that he was in [[Białystok|Bialystok]]. She located him there and together they went to Soviet-controlled Lvov where they were married.<ref name=":0" /> The Soviets appointed Mire as a member of city council and commissar. Olek left to join the [[Red Army]] when the Germans to Lvov in June
=== Jewish resistance ===
While living in the
Mire
=== Second imprisonment and death ===
In March
Mire often wrote poems in [[Yiddish]] and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], the themes of which were her husband and dead baby as well as Communism and resistance.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
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[[Category:1911 births]]
[[Category:1943 deaths]]
[[Category:Jewish women]]
[[Category:Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust]]
[[Category:Jewish resistance members during the Holocaust]]
[[Category:Polish resistance members of World War II]]
[[Category:People from Rzeszów]]
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