Born in 1926 in Korosten, Ukraine he fled the Nazi invasion in 1941 and got to Uzbekistan . Returning to the Ukraine in 1945, he organized a group of students in the training college in Zhitomir for the study of Jewish history. After graduating from the college he continued his Zionist activities. Arrested in 1951 and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, which he served in the Steplag, he was released in 1955 but only got to Israel only in 1980. He died in November 1994.
