For over a decade she was married to Thomas James Wilkin,[1] an Assistant Superintendent in the Criminal Investigation Department of the Palestine Police, who was assassinated by the Lehi on September 29, 1944.

In 1925, Lyuba immigrated with her two children, Shoshana aged thirteen and David, to Mandatory Palestine in the framework of the Fourth Aliyah.

With the help of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, chairman of the Jewish National Council, Shoshana was hired as an office worker at HaMerkaz HaHakla'i.

In his historical novel Red Days,[3] published in 2006, the writer Ram Oren tells the story of Shoshana's relationship with Thomas James Wilkin, born in England in 1909.

Oren writes that Wilkin met Shoshana Borochov at the end of his first week serving in Jaffa.

As an officer who had mastered Hebrew, Wilkin was considered a dangerous enemy, especially by the underground organizations who recognized his abilities and were afraid of him.

Her brother David was concerned because he had broadcast over the Haganah's underground radio station,[5] and feared that Wilkin would turn him in.

Arthur Frederick Giles, the Intelligence chief, gave her a silver chain that was found among Wilkin things, which she wore around her neck.