Born in 1903, in Poland and having experienced the occupation of Poland by Soviet Union, he was an active member of the “He-Halutz” movement. He was conscripted to the Red Army and fought with the Germans. In 1948 he tried to escape from the Soviet Union to Poland and then into Israel, but was arrested and sentenced to 8 years of labor camps for “treason”. He spent his term in Irkutsk and at the Baikal lake. Having been released in 1958, he left for Israel in 1959.
