Born in 1919 in Kaunas, Lithuania, he joined the Zionist youth organization “HaMaccabi HaZair” as a young man in his home town, and later was appointed as commander of the battalion of Maccabi-ists. He was arrested in 1946 on charges of Zionist activity in Kaunas, before the establishment of the Soviet regime, of Zionist work in Vilnius in 1944−46, of the organization of illegal escape to Eretz Israel and in the attempt of illegally crossing the Soviet-Polish border. He was sentenced to 10 years in Gulag and one year in exile. His sentence was served in its totality in the concentration camps of Ukhta, Vorkuta, Taishet and others. Released in 1956, he left for Israel in 1971. Remember & Save Association website
