57:. She attended the State Pedagogical Institute from 1930 to 1932, after which she became a schoolteacher. During the late 1930s, she travelled in France, Austria and the eastern United States. From 1939 to 1942, she lived in Switzerland before emigrating to the United States with her husband in 1942. Shortly after their arrival, her husband died.
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