Born in 1928 in Minsk, Belarus, he was taken to the Minsk ghetto during the German occupation but managed to escape from there. In 1947 owing to anti-Semitic libel at work he was falsely accused of being a deserter. Sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in the labor camp in Kemerovo, he was released after an appeal the following year. Thereafter he persistently engaged in Zionist activity and kept contacts with the Israeli Embassy in Moscow. In 1958 he was arrested again on the charge of Zionist activity and sentenced to 6 years imprisonment in labor camps. As a Zionist and as a Jew he conducted a proud and courageous struggle against the anti-Semitism he was confronted by among both the convicts and the guards. Released in 1964, he obstinately continued his Zionist propaganda. In 1969 he came to Israel. He is the author of an exciting autobiographical book “Brown Boots and Red Boots”. He married Zeev Zhabotinsky’s granddaughter.
