Israel Evrovich

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Born in 1915 in Kovno, Lithuania, he joined Beitar as a youth and became one of the Lithuanian Beitar leaders. His poems in Hebrew were published in Lithuanian magazines. After being arrested in 1941, he was accused of Zionist activities and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment followed by 6 years exile to the Akmolinsk region. Freed in 1957, he managed to get to Israel in 1966. He made a significant contribution to the Diaspora Zionist Movement’s history by collecting biographical documents connected to Prisoners of Zion from different countries. Remember & Save website
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