Surrounded by the Germans and their auxiliaries in the ghetto bunker, she refused to surrender and committed suicide with the other members of the Jewish resistance.

She was active in Hashomer Hatzair youth organization in the interwar period, where she met the future commander of ŻOB Mordechai Anielewicz.

[1] In November of the same year, they joined the fate of other Jewish citizens of Warsaw trapped in the newly formed ghetto.

[4] In the Warsaw Ghetto, Mira worked in a small tailor's shop along with her friends Towa Frenkel and Rachel Zilberberg.

[citation needed] In the 2001 television film Uprising, she was portrayed by Australian actress Radha Mitchell.