After the Nazis came to power in 1933 they fled to Paris, France. In 1928 she married Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in Warsaw, and they went to live in Berlin, Germany, where he studied in the local university. After his release, the Schneersohn family left the Soviet Union and moved to Riga, Latvia. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's harsh sentence was first commuted to exile, and Chaya Mushka accompanied her father to Kostroma. In the autumn of 1927 her father was imprisoned for disseminating Torah observance, and she participated in efforts to have him released that were ultimately successful. In the spring of 1924, due to increasing dangers for the Jews in Rostov, she and her family moved to Leningrad. In 1920, on the passing of her grandfather, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, her father became the sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch. She lived in Lubavitch until the autumn of 1915 when due to World War I, she and her family were forced to flee to Rostov. Upon request of her grandfather, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, she was named Chaya Mushka after her great grandmother, the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek. Rebbitzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson's gravesiteīorn in Babinovitch, near the Russian city of Lubavitch on Shabbat, the 25th of Adar of the year 5661 (March 16, 1901).
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