Born in 1914 in Iagutin in the Kiev region of Ukraine, he studied in an illegal Yeshiva in which he later taught. As a member of a group planning escape from the USSR to Erets Israel, he was arrested in June 1941 and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in Krasnojarsk. In 1946 he was exiled to Kansk Siberia, but succeeded in escaping. Rearrested repeatedly in 1951, he was accused of organizing illegal emigration of Soviet Jews from USSR. He was given an additional 5 years sentence. Released in 1957, he got to Israel in 1971. Died in 1984. Remember & Save website.
