Frida Michelson

[1] Michelson was born in Jaungulbene, in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (now Latvia) in 1906.

Michelson hid in the forest for the next three years, and with the help of local people managed to survive the Nazi occupation.

In 1971 Frida Michelson and her children left the Soviet Union and moved to Israel.

[2] In the 1960s, Frida Michelson wrote down her memories of the Holocaust and the Nazi occupation in Latvia, in her native language, Yiddish.

[3] Michelson's writings were translated into Russian and adapted by David Silberman creating the book "I Survived Rumbula".