Born in 1915 in Berdichev, she was interested in Zionism from an early age. After the war she worked in Leningrad in an underground youth group, which helped Jews to get to Israel through Poland. Arrested in 1951, together with her husband, for underground Zionist activity, she was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment and hard labor. She was released in 1953 after death of Stalin, but only in 1972 did she and her husband receive exit visas to go to Israel. She died in 1984.
