Born in1916 in Dnepropetrovsk, the Ukraine to a family that lived in Shavli, Lithuania from 1921 till 1940. He studied in the “Tarbut” classic high school and in 1928 joined the “Beitar” movement An active member of the Jewish community, he was also a correspondent in the newspapers “Idishe Shtime” (“Jewish voice”), “Unser moment” (“Our time”) and “Der Emes” (“The truth”). In 1937-38 he was the leader of “Beitar” in Shavli. After the Soviet occupation he organized an underground group, whose members included Dov Shilansky, the future member of Israeli parliament, and was in close connection with I. Pulyarevich, an operational officer of “Beitar” in Lithuania, who was responsible for the underground activity. Evacuated to the city of Marry, Turkmenistan, at the beginning of WWII, his small apartment became the secret address for meetings of underground Zionist agents. In 1942 he moved to the city of Kramina, Uzbekistan, where he continued his Zionist activities. In 1945 he was arrested by NKWD, charged with “high treason, dissemination of anti-Soviet Zionist materials and writing a book about the Jews of Bukhara” and sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag. Released in 1954, he returned to Vilnius. He and his family finally received permission to go to Israel in 1969. In 1970, together with I. Pulyarevich, A. Shtukarevich and others, he founded the “Organization of the Prisoners of Zion”. In 1987 he was one of the authors of the book about the prisoners of Zion “B’ lakhav hama’avak” (“In the Flame of Fight”). He served as permanent secretary of the “Organizations of the Prisoners of Zion”, was a delegate to 29-th, 30-th and 31-d Zionist Congresses and actively fought for the global right of free immigration to Israel, and also for the rights and the recognition of prisoners of Zion. He died in 1996. Remember & Save Association websites
