Her father was a direct descendant of Hasidic Masters, going back to the Magid Dov Ber of Mezeritch (1704–1772),[1] the disciple and successor of the Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760).
They worked together with Edmond Michelet, the future Senior Minister of Charles de Gaulle, in the major Movement of the French Resistance, Combat.
The poet Itzak Katznelson (Itzhak Katzenelson) is among the deportees of this convoy, as well as many Poles, arrested as he was in Vittel, after having been transferred from Poland.
She worked hard, and was well thought-of, but when they were asked to knit socks for men, she resisted by making big knots inside the garments so as to render them unusable.
The Gross-Rosen concentration camp was situated near Breslau (called today Wrocław in Poland) railway station.
There Warfman was made to work in a munitions factory from six in the evening to six in the morning, with one half-hour break, and regular beatings.
She welcomed and guided many Israeli leaders during their stays in Paris, including Golda Meir, and David Ben-Gurion.
In 1947 she forged identity cards for Mossad LeAliyah Bet to issue to Jewish refugees to embark aboard Exodus 1947.
Together with Abbé Alexandre Glasberg, recognized posthumously as a Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, for saving Jews during the war.