Born in 1919 in Riga, Latvia, he was a member of the “Beitar” movement in Riga from an early age and was engaged in Zionist activity. In searching his house, the KGB found Zionist literature and other Jewish materials. Arrested in 1959, he was sentenced to 2 years in the Gulag. In 1971 he was allowed to leave for Israel where he died in 1980.
