Vera Ducas

{{Short description|Jewish refugee and alleged informer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Vera Ducas

| birth_date = 1912

| birth_place = Austria-Hungary

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|03|29|1912|df=yes}}

| death_place = Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine

| death_cause = Gunshot wound

| nationality =

| known_for = Alleged informer for the British CID, killed by the Stern Gang

}}

Vera Ducas (1912 – 29 March 1948) was born to a Jewish family in Austria-Hungary. She fled the 1939 Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia with her husband and child. They lived in Turkey for several years before arriving in Palestine. She didn't speak Hebrew and was unable to find work and is alleged to have become an informer for the British CID.Harry Levin, 'Jerusalem Embattled', Cassel, London, 1997. {{ISBN|0-304-33765-X}}, text copyright 1950, p.191

She was kidnapped from one of the main cafes of Jerusalem's Jewish QuarterThe Scotsman on Sunday 29 March 1948 and her body found on a patch of waste ground, shot through the head. It was reported that the Stern Gang had announced that they had killed her, accusing her of spying for the British.Eric Downton, The Scotsman, Monday 30 March 1948Levin's diary p.191, 21 May, refers to seeing old posters in Jerusalem announcing her execution, these he attributes to Etzel, (Irgun).