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Mirit Cohen, painter, born 1945, Russia. Committed suicide 1990. Cohen was born in Russia in 1945 under the name Maniya Malka to a socialist and Zionist family. Her father, Haim Cohen, a Polish Jew, was born in Lodz, and fled during the Second World War to Russia, where he met her mother Rebeca. After the war, her family immigrated, in an Italian ship, to the region of Palestine under the British Mandate. Soon after arriving they were deported to a detention camp in Cyprus. In 1948, after the establishment of Israel, the family immigrated and settled in the State of Israel in Givat Shmuel.
In 1956 Cohen was sent to study at kibbutz Kfar Masaryk due to economic distress. In 1958 a during she created won a youth drawing competition in Japan. Three years later, Cohen moved back with her parents and began attending high school in Bnei Brak. During this period has she became active in the Communist youth movement in Petah Tikva. The last years in high school she studied at the Hadash High School in Tel Aviv after getting a scholarship. Prize: 1994 Prize for Completion of Work

Education

1964-1967 High School of Painting (Mrgushinsky), Tel Aviv-Yaffo
1967-1964 Avni Insitute, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
1969-1971 Hamidrasha, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
1977-1975 School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

Awards And Prizes

1969-1971, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Scholarship
1975-1977, Scholarship for studies in the USA, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1995 Ministry of Culture Award