Born in 1921 in Riga, Latvia, to a Zionist family she became chairman of the Zionist Youth movement “Gliliya”. Exiled to Siberia in 1941, she was arrested in 1949 and accused of Israeli propaganda. Sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in Mordovia and the Siberian labour camps, she was released in 1956 but was unable to get to Israel until 1975. Remember & Save website.