Keeping the Promise: Memoirs of a war bride from Israel - Mena Kozminsky-Meyerwitz honey dish and is visited by the

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Keeping the Promise: Memoirs of a war bride from Israel - Mena Kozminsky-Meyerwitz honey dish and is visited by theMena Kozminsky Meyerowitz was born into a pioneering Zionist family and grew up in Eretz Yisrael in the late twenties and thirties. During World War II, fate intervened when she met and married a handsome Australian soldier. In 1944, she made a hazardous sea journey to join him in Melbourne. Mena, then twenty, promised her family that although she was leaving them, she would endeavour to do more for her beloved Israel than if she stayed. She never