Born in 1913 in Lithuania, he was an active member of “Beitar” in Vilkomir, Lithuania. Arrested in 1947 while attempting to flee Lithuania to Poland in order to reach Eretz Israel, he was kept for 6 months under investigation in a jail in Vilnius, and then sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in the Gulag. His sentence was served in the camps of Komi ASSR. Having served his time to the full, he was released in 1958 and went to Israel. He died in 1976.