Born in 1911 in Belarus, she distributed Zionist materials and literature among Jews and printed articles and essays on the Jewish problem in the Soviet Union, which were also forwarded to the West. She was arrested in 1958 in Moscow, together with her husband Shimon Podolsky and their son Baruch, and charged with Zionist activities and anti-Soviet propaganda. Sentenced to 7 years in the Gulag, she spent her sentence in various Siberian camps. Released in 1965, she went to Israel in 1969. She died in 1980.
