Deborah Genauer was born and raised in the US. She became a psychologist and came to Israel in 1953 for a year to work at the Hospital for Handicapped Children in Katamon. She lived with her uncle Zvi in Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem.
Zvi came to Israel in 1952 with his wife Zippora (Feigel Cecille) and their five children. He studied at the Mir Yeshiva. On April 19, 1953 (the eve of Independence Day) a group of Arabs infiltrated into West Jerusalem, entered the Genauer home and shot both Zvi and Deborah. She had attended the Journalists' Independence Day Ball the day before her murder, and was planning to return to the US to be married.
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