Daughter of Hanna-Batya and Yaakov, was born on February 2, 1914 in the city of Jerzy, Lithuania, under the influence of her grandmother, who had kept her in the tradition of Israel for all her life, even in the most difficult circumstances, even in the Nazi forced labor camp. She agreed to study at a Lithuanian Gymnasium, where she had attended a Jewish gymnasium in the city, but she also kept the Sabbath and refused to take a written test on the Sabbath, while Masha Chaya stood at the head of the Jewish students and raised them to defend against manifestations of anti-Semitism. Medicine at the University of Kaunas was active in the Moriah religious student union, and when she stopped her studies, she refused She joined the “Hehalutz Hamizrachi” movement, was elected as secretary of the branch, served as a member of the movement’s national council and was trained in several companies, and began working in a commercial office as a bookkeeper. , And in her office the documents for exit and transit permit were prepared for those who wanted to immigrate to Russia. Later, during her four years in Kovno Ghetto, she worked in the most difficult jobs, even in hard labor. She was active in the underground Torah V’Avodah movement and in Zionist and Hebrew life in general. To aid needy and needy people, she dealt with all the welfare activities that were carried out in several special associations in the Jewish communities (charity for the poor, help for the sick, bride’s income, etc.). Aspired to leave and join the partisan units in the forests, but this option was not given to her. When a rumor spread that soon the area of the ghetto would be reduced, she burrowed with 20 members of ABZ. (“Bnei Zion”), the Union of Zionist youth organizations in the underground, in a sophisticated bunker they prepared under a house intended to be outside the ghetto, in order to leave the area afterwards. They installed a clinic, a library and a radio, which also recorded Kol Yerushalayim, and a food storeroom for six months. She ran the agriculture and the general order and served as a medic. The bunker was discovered. All the property was a falcon and its occupants miraculously escaped through a hidden doorway. As the Russians approached, the Kovno ghetto was liquidated and transferred with thousands of Jewish women to forced labor in the camps in occupied German territory. Upon the liberation she devoted herself to establishing religious training kibbutzim for She’erit HaPleita in Lodz and later in Krakow. She led and educated and tried to revive the traditional Jewish way of life in friends and friends. In Krakow she stood bravely with the members of the kibbutz against the antisemitic Polish rioters. At the end of the summer of 1945 she left with a group of Torah and Labor members in the Bericha route to Austria. Where she met with her brother the soldier, who served in the Jewish Brigade, and although she could obtain a permit to immigrate as a soldier’s sister, she preferred to immigrate to Israel with her group members and leave the immigration certificate for another person. In the month of Av 1946 she reached the shores of the country on a “Palmach” ship, was deported to Cyprus, and there, as in her wanderings in the refugee camps, she continued to organize and train. In the spring of 1947 she was liberated and immigrated to Israel, spent two months in the Atlit and Kiryat Shmuel camps, and later joined Kfar Etzion as an accountant and continued to do so during the siege, where she hoped to find rest after the accessibility and fears in the Diaspora did not prevent her from fulfilling her duties. And served as a paramedic in the shelter under the German monastery, and she did her duty in a strong spirit until the last moment, when the enemy blew up the monastery on the day of the fall of Kfar Etzion, on the 4th of Iyar5708 (13.5.1948) On the day of the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) she was brought to rest with the rest of the victims of the Gush in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
