Meir Gelfond

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Born in 1930 in Zhmerinka, Ukraine, as a teenager, together with others, he founded the Zionist youth organization “Einikeit”. Members of the group were arrested in 1949 and sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment. Meir was sentenced to 8 years but was released in 1954. After the Six Day War he was responsible, as part of a Moscow Zionist group, for the organization, the printing and the distribution of the Jewish “Samizdat”. In 1971 he moved, with his family, to Israel where he continued his Zionist activity. In 1972 he was a delegate of the “Asirei Zion” (“Prisoners of Zion”) organization at the Zionist congress in Jerusalem. He died in 1985.
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