Antonina Aleksandrovna Nikiforova's childhood fell on the First World War and the Civil War, during the Second World War she was a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps Majdanek and Ravensbrück. After her release, Antonina Aleksandrovna spent several months in a Soviet prison on a false denunciation (Sentenced: October RIK in 1932,
Rehabilitated on May 13, 1998 Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan)
Despite the difficulties endured , Antonina Nikiforova had enough strength to survive the events again: about the concentration camp Ravensbrück she wrote two books. In 1959 she was awarded the medal of the German government for the fight against fascism.
Antonina Aleksandrovna worked as a pathologist at A.A. Botkin Hospital.