Moshe Brodsky was born in 1898 in the shtetl of Kaminka, Ukraine. From the very youth he entered the Zionist movement “Poaley Zion” (The Workers of Zion). In 1916, being a prominent activist he was elected to the Central Committee of the Poaley Zion party. He worked hard for the Zionist movement in Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia. When the authorities began prosecuting Zionists, he went underground and kept it quiet. Lived and worked in Moscow. In 1955 in Moscow he was arrested, and charged with distribution of Israeli propaganda literature and connections with Israeli Embassy. He was sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag, but after the appeal 4 years of his sentence were cut off. Spent his sentence in a high-security camp in Potma. After a usual request for pardon (2/3 of the sentence time), he refused to call himself guilty and to condemn Zionism. As a result he was not pardoned and served his sentence in full, almost 2 years more. Moshe Brodsky and his family made their aliyah in 1971. He died in 1977.
