Born on Sept. 14th 1923 in Lithuania, she became a member “HaShomer HaTzair” at an early age. Using her job position and connections, she helped Jews in Vilnius to escape to Poland en route to Eretz Israel. In 1947 she and her husband Gilel Mazinter were arrested on charges of subversive Zionist activities and connections with international Zionism. She was sentenced by “Troika” (a special non-juridical body of 3 KGB persons) to 10 years imprisonment in the Gulag. She served her sentence in Potma, Mordovia. Released in 1956, she managed to get to Israel, together with her husband, in 1966.
