Was born on Dec 25th, 1923 in the “shtetl” of Makhlia, Bessarabia. At the age of 14 she joined the Zionist organization of “Gordonia”, and soon became a leader of this movement until 1940, when Bessarabia was occupied by the Soviets. After this she continued her Zionist activity underground especially agitating for the right to make the Aliya to Eretz Israel. In 1945−46 she helped an emissary from Eretz Israel to organize the escape of Jews from the USSR to Romania. Arrested in 1952, she was sentenced to 3 years in prison. She spent her sentence in the Zingy-Ata camp near Tashkent and also in some other camps of the Gulag. In 1955 she was released, but not till 1973 was she able to get to Israel.
