Born in 1913 in Zizmorai, Lithuania, he was one of the founders of the local Beitar branch and its commander till 1940. Arrested in 1941, he was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment followed by exile in Siberia. He served his sentence on the Belomoro-Baltijski Channel construction and in the Onezhski labour camp. Freed in 1947, he got to Israel in 1949. Remember & Save website.