Born on Dec. 25th, 1923 in Kaunas, Lithuania, she became an active member of “HaShomer HaTzair”. In 1947, in attempting to cross the border between the Soviet Union and Poland en route to Eretz Israel, she was arrested and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in the Gulag plus 2 years in exile. Released from camp in 1952, she suffered for her cause for another 29 year before being allowed to go to Israel, together with her husband, also a Prisoner of Zion. She died in 1993.
