Born in 1922 in Kishinev, Besarabia, she was a member of the “Gordonia” movement in her town from her youth onwards.. In 1949, while trying to cross the border in order to travel to Israel, she was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison in Kishinev. She was released after 8 years, in 1957, but was only allowed to leave the Soviet Union for Israel in 1973.
