Malka Lorber Rolnik was born in Chelm, Poland, in 16 May 1922. She was the youngest of 8 children of a very religious couple, Bluma Gross and Berish Milchtajch. She was 17 years old when, in 1939, the II World War begun. She had to flee with some of her brothers and sisters, leaving behind her parents and other relatives to Stalin's Russia, where she barely survived. She did as thousands of other Jews, who fled away from the Nazis and were attracted by the Russian's Communist Party propaganda about the "Soviet Paradise." Russia was the only way out for Polish Jews when the German occupation started, the only door left which they thought could guarantee their survival. Stalin was known Hitler's greatest enemy. Surprisingly, in 23 August 1939, both signed a "Non - Aggression Pact" and less than the month later, 28 September, Poland was in partition.  
 
Jews and other minorities soon became Stalin's slaves. At the beginning, they settled in Ukraine, near Poland and their homes; later in the surroundings of towns and then in Moscow. As new refugees arrived, the older ones were taken in long train journeys to places like Siberia. Those who survived the terrible journey conditions were taken to work under very hard and miserable conditions in order to stay alive and were submitted to Stalin's indoctrination. Malka worked hard with 55 degrees below zero, with no food and clothing to survive. She lost relatives, had typhus and lost her youth in the gelid Siberia.  
 
Malka survived and met her old friend from Chelm, David Lorber Rolnik, whom she married in Berlin, in Germany, in Lager Tempelhof, a DP camp, at 4th December, 1946. They later moved to South America and she lived in Brazil till her death on 5th November 1987.   She was a writer and poetess since she was 8 years old. When one of her first poems was published in the Chelm’s newspaper, the main redactor liked her work and decided to meet her.. He could not believe when her mother showed him the little girl playing in the room. She left several poems all written in Yiddish, many of them published in several countries. She also wrote stories, children's tales and songs. Two books were published after her death, when the family found the manuscripts: "The Abysses" and "Young World", both in Portuguese. Other manuscripts are being translated.  Berish and Bluma Milchtajch, Malka’s parents, were killed together with two of their children, Henna and Iossel. The others survived and each one immigrated to a different country.