Born on 12.15.1917 in Lithuania, she was an active member of “Maccabi” and “Hashomer Hatzair” from an early age. After WWII, in 1945, she joined a group of Jews in Vilnius, attempting to leave the Soviet Union illegally to emigrate to Palestine –Eretz Israel, Arrested, she was charged with “high treason and creation of underground Zionist anti-Soviet organizations”. Sentenced to 8 years in the Gulag plus 2 years in exile, she served her sentence on Kolyma. Released in 1953, she still had to wait to get to Israel in 1967. She died in 1991. Remember & Save Association websites
