Born in 1922 in Khantsevits, Poland, she joined the Zionist movement “Hashomer Hatzair” at the age of 11 and soon became an activist, continuing this activity secretly during the period of the Soviet occupation. In “HaBrikha” she was involved in the underground transfer of Jews from the Soviet Union through Iran to Eretz Israel. Arrested in 1943, she succeeded in escaping. At the end of the War she returned to Poland and continued to work in “HaBrikha” promoting Jewish emigration to Israel. In 1946 she was sent by “HaBrikha” to the Soviet Union to find new routes of escape for Jews through Hungary and Rumania. That year, however, she was arrested in Lvov and sentenced to 8 years in the Gulag in Siberia serving her sentence in the camps of Inta, Vorkuta, etc. Released in 1954, she was allowed to leave the Soviet Union for Israel that same year. In Israel she was actively occupied in the absorption of immigrants from the USSR. She is a member of the Council of the Organization of the Prisoners of Zion. Remember & Save Association website
