Born in 1899 in Vilno, Poland, he graduated from the Kovno University in Kaunas and taught at Jewish schools. After WWII he worked in the underground preparing Jews whose aim was to get to Eretz Israel. In 1947 he was arrested and sentenced (without even his presence in the court) to 10 years imprisonment in labor camps. His family was sent to exile in Krasnoyarsk. He spent his sentence in concentration camps of Komi ASSR. His book “Memoirs of a Prisoner of Zion” was published in Israel. He was released in 1957 and continued to struggle for his right to leave for Israel. Not till 1972 did he obtain permission to come to Israel together with his family. He died in 1978.
