Born in 1910 in Warsaw, but moved, with his family, to Riga, Latvia. As an active member of “Folkshaim” he helped the “Erets Israel” organisation in make false passports for people who wanted to get to Erets Israel. He was both a parliamentary secretary to Mordechai Dubin, the Jewish deputy of the Latvian Saeima, and also the editor of the Yiddish newspaper “Haint”. Arrested and accused of Zionism in 1941, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and permanent exile to the Solikamsk region in the Urals. Moved to Krasnojarsk in 1951 and was freed in 1956 when he returned to Riga, continuing his Zionist activities, this time in collaboration with the Israeli Embassy in Moscow. He finally got to Israel in 1968. Remember & Save website
