After her entire family was killed in the Aktions carried out in the ghetto of her hometown, and after she had spent time in a work camp which had been set up in place of the ghetto, she fled to the countryside and from there to the forests. She was part of a group of about 100 Jews who lived together in the forest,  some of whom had weapons. After they met up with Russian partisans, their weapons were taken away from them and they were joined to the Molotov Partisan Brigade. She fought in this framework in the Shaish Company.

She immigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1948.