Born in 1921 in Markine, Lithuania, she joined the Bnei Akiva movement at the age of 13 and became one of the leaders of the local branch, also taking part in organizing a kibbutz in Slobodka. After the Soviet Army occupied Lithuania in 1940 she joined an underground movement, delivering Hebrew books from Kovno to her native town and back. Following the Nazi invasion of the USSR, she fled to Turkmenia with a group of fellow Jews. Trying to cross the Iranian border in 1942 she was caught and sentenced to three years imprisonment. Her sentence was served in the camps of Tagil and Ashkhabad and, although freed in 1944, she was exiled to a neighboring camp. In 1946 she was exiled again, this time to a Kazakh kolkhoz and finally freed in 1956. She was unable to emigrate to Israel until 1979 where she died in 1991. Remember & Save website
