Born in 1923 in Danzig, he was arrested in 1944 because of his previous membership of the revisionist party «Beitar», and sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag. Released in 1952, he consistently applied for permission to go to Israel. His dream came true in 1990 when he finally got to Israel. Alexander’s father - Abraham, born in 1897, a native of Warsaw, was a prominent Zionist leader, and a very popular Jewish figure in Poland. He was arrested by the Soviet authorities on June 24, 1945, and the NKVD military court sentenced him to death. He was executed by firing squad. Remember & Save Association website
