Born in 1919 in Gdyach, in the Ukraine, to a Zionist family whose home served as the centre of underground meetings of Zionists. In 1940, during service in the Red Army in Poland, he helped Jews to leave Poland and to emigrate to Eretz Israel. He organized material aid and helped with false documents. He fought in the ranks of the Red Army till 1945 and was twice injured. After the War he returned to Moscow and continued his Zionist activities there but, in 1946 he and his entire family were arrested and sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag. Released from the camp in 1956 he was sent for a year’s exile to the North of Siberia. Despite being released in 1957, he had to wait till 1971 before finally getting permission to go to Israel together with his family. He died in 1993. Remember & Save Association website
