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Met Office adds: Born 1922 in Lodz, Poland died 28 July at Deversoir, Egypt. Lili and her mother escaped from Poland following the German invasion in 1939 and eventually reached Palestine. Her father remained in Poland and eventually died in the Lodz ghetto in August 1942. Lili was one of 616 women resident in Palestine who joined the WAAF between May 1943 and May 1945. After being place in the ‘Meteorologist’ trade group and in the absence of a Meteorological Office training school Lili would have received her training ‘on the job’ at an RAF airfield. By the summer of 1945 Lili was working with No 23 Forecast Unit at RAF Lydda in Palestine where her duties would have included plotting charts, observing and duplicating forecasts. On 28 July 1945 Lili boarded an aircraft to fly to Shallufa near Suez for a week’s leave. The aircraft encountered difficulties with an engine and amid some confusion the wireless operator thought the pilot had ordered the aircraft to be abandoned. Lili jumped from the aircraft at about 500 feet. Sadly her parachute failed to open.