Miriam joined the movement at the age of twelve. In 1939, when the area was annexed to Hungary, she was forced to escape because she was wanted by the police for her Zionist activities. Miriam arrived in Prešov and Bratislava in Slovakia where she worked for the national leadership of “Bnei Akiva”. When it became known that Jewish girls risked being deported from Slovakia (1942), Miriam fled to Hungary and arrived in Budapest. She joined the “Bnei Akiva” national leadership and took part in the underground activities which included the forging and distributing of forged documents, finding hiding places for the refugees, food and equipment for those in hiding and smuggling Jews over the Romanian border and from there to Eretz Israel (Palestine). Miriam herself failed inher attempt to cross the border and she joined the train of the Relief and Rescue Committee whose destination was Switzerland. After she arrived in Switzerland Miriam agreed to the movement’s request that she remain in Europe for some time as an educator for orphans who were Holocaust survivors.
In 1945 Miriam made aliya with a group of children. She worked as a nurse in the agricultural school “Mikveh Israel”. She married Yitzhak Roth and they built a large family.
