Born in 1919 in Poland, to a family of religious Zionists, he was a member of the Zionist movements "He-Halutz ha-Zioni" and "Beitar" from 1934 till 1939 working with Halutzian groups engaged in agricultural education. During the war he participated in Zionist work in Georgia, unofficially teaching Hebrew and organizing Jewish groups for escape from the Soviet Union. Arrested in 1944 he was sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag, 8 of which were spent in different concentration camps, and the last several years of his sentence in exile. He was released in 1956, but only in 1966 did he and his family get permission to go to Israel. He died in 1989. Remember & Save Association website
