Born on 04.05.1921 in Riga, Latvia, she became an activist in the Zionist organization “Beitar” from an early age until the Soviet occupation. During the WWII she lived in Moscow. In 1944 at a Jewish party she wished everybody “next year in Jerusalem” but was arrested in 1945, and sentenced, by the military tribunal in Yaroslavl, to 10 years in the Gulag plus a lifetime’s exile after the end of her prison sentence. Her sentence was served in the camps of Norilsk and Chelyabinsk. Released in Norilsk at the end 1954 and remaining there in exile for 2 more years, she finally got to Israel via Poland in 1959. Remember & Save Association websites
