Born in 1910 in Minsk, he was an activist in “Maccabi” in Lithuania from his youth onwards. Conducted Zionist work and propaganda for emigration to Eretz Israel among the Jewish students. Arrested by the Soviet regime in 1946 in Vilnius, while attempting to flee to Poland, his goal being to reach the then Eretz Israel, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison and, though released in 1949, still had to wait till 1971 to obtain permission to leave the USSR for Israel. Remember & Save Association website
