Born in 1910 in Minsk, Belorussia, he served in the Red Army during WWII, was promoted to the rank of Colonel and was injured twice. In 1945−46 he served as the head of the logistics department for the Soviet occupation forces in Poland and in Germany and at the same time was secretly occupied by the organization of illegal aliyah of Holocaust survivors. Arrested in 1946 and sentenced to capital punishment, he had his sentence commuted to 10 years in the Gulag. He served 9 years in Siberian camps. After coming to Israel in 1958, he was recognized as Honorable Colonel of Israeli army in 1976. He died in 1988. Remember & Save Association website
