Career
During World World War II, she was deported to the Riga Ghetto in December 1941 by the Nazis. She later emigrated to Colombia. She published her memoir, Entre luz y tinieblas and Zwischen Tag und Dunkel: Mädchenjahre im Ghetto, in 1982 and 1984.
She also spoke to Yad Vashem about her ordeal.
She retired in Jerusalem, Israel, where she died in 2011.