Efroni Brakha (1921)
| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Efroni |
| Name | Brakha |
| Birth year | 1921 |
| Birth month | 4 |
| Birth day | 5 |
| Birth place | Riga |
| Sex | F |
Efroni Brakha (05.04.1921, Riga) — Prisoner of Zion. From a young age until the Soviet occupation, she was an activist of the Zionist organisation “Beitar.” During World War II, she lived in Moscow. In 1944, while among Jews, she expressed the wish “Next year in Jerusalem”; in 1945, she was arrested, tried by a military tribunal in Yaroslavl and sentenced to 10 years in corrective labour camps and lifelong exile after serving her sentence. She served her sentence in the camps of Norilsk and Chelyabinsk. She was released in Norilsk at the end of 1954 and remained there in exile for another 2 years. In 1959, she emigrated to Israel via Poland.
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