Born in 1915 in Brosov, Poland, he was a member of “Ha-Shomer Ha-Tzair” from his youth in the town Sarno. During World War II he served as commander of a reconnaissance guerrilla group in the Byelorussian forests. In 1948 he was arrested as a Jewish nationalist based on statements he had made about anti-Semitism in USSR. He was sentenced to 8 years of prison that were spent in the Ural labor camp. He was released in 1956 and left for Israel in 1957. There he devoted himself to helping people who had followed in his footsteps. He is an active member of the Committee and of the organization “Prisoners of Zion”.
