Born in 1923 in the town of Orlov, Poland, she was arrested in 1947, together with her husband Yeshayahu, on charges of attempting to escape from the USSR for Eretz Israel through Poland. Sentenced to 5 years in the Gulag and while still in the Lukishki jail in Vilnius gave birth to her daughter. Served her sentence in Svivdlag. Released in 1952, she got to Israel with her daughter and husband in 1959.
