Born in 1920 in Berdichev, in the Ukraine, she helped her husband, Yaakov Shotland, in his Zionist activities from 1938: distributing Zionist propaganda, gathering donations and preparing false documents for the Jews who wanted to leave the Soviet Union for Poland in attempting to escape to Eretz Israel. In 1946 she and her entire family were arrested and sentenced to 5 years in the Gulag. In 1954 she was released from the camp and sent to exile in the North of Siberia. She continued her Zionist activities both in the camps and in exile. Released in 1957, she had to wait the 14 years that it took to be successful in getting to Israel in 1971 together with her family. Remember & Save Association website
