Born in 1905 in Moldova, she joined the Zionist movement as a young girl and was very active among Jewish youth, lecturing and writing articles supporting the rights of Zionism, the Jewish state and the right to emigrate to it. Arrested in 1942 for her Zionist activities, she was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment and was, indeed, set free in 1950 but the struggle to get to Israel wasn't won until 1972. Remember & Save website
