Born in 1915 in Olishkany, Bessarabia, he was a member of “Maccabi” and “Poalei Zion” from an early age. Mobilized into the Red Army in 1941, he was sent to work in Gorky. In 1946 he attempted to escape to Eretz Israel through Rumania but was arrested in Bucharest and sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag. 8 years were spent in various concentration camps in Siberia. He went to Israel in 1973 where he died in 1991. Remember & Save Association website
