Born in 1906 in Poland, he was a member of the organization “Mizrahi” in Lvov and worked for the “Keren Kayemet” until the Soviet occupation. He was arrested in 1951 and charged with Zionist propaganda. After pitiless investigation, he received the death penalty, later commuted to 25 years imprisonment. He spent 4.5 years in camps on Komi ASSR, and despite being released in 1955, he was unable to reach Israel until 1966. He died in 1986.
