Born in 1932, she joined the youth Zionist movement “Dror"as a youngster. Engaged in Zionist propaganda and distribution of materials about Israel, she was arrested in 1951 and sentenced by OSO (Special extrajudicial tribunal) to 5 years imprisonment. She served her sentence in concentration camps in the Urals and in Kizil, in the Perm province. She was released in 1953 within the framework of the general amnesty following Stalin’s death. However, it was as late as 1990 before she succeeded in getting to Israel.
