Born in 1905 in Hungary, from 1945 he was a member of the executive committee of the tiny Jewish community of Munich—Holocaust survivors. In 1946 he was arrested by the SMERSH (Death to Spies—operational arm of the KGB) while on a street in Vienna, taken away to the Soviet Union and sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag. He served his sentence in the camps of Vorkuta, was released in 1956 and in 1957 left for Israel. He died in 1986. Remember & Save Association website
