Because of Beys' activities within the Communist Party, the couple left the USA and spent nine months in Cuba, where Soshana had her first exhibition in 1948 at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Havana.[6] From that time on she used the name "Soshana", the nom de plume Afroyims gave her, meaning "Lily" in Hebrew. After a short stay in the USA, they moved to Europe and eventually to Israel.