Born in 1924 in Kishinev, Bessarabia, he was a member of the Zionist organization “Gordonia” from his youth until 1940. In 1946 he was arrested, together with a group, attempting to cross the Soviet-Rumanian border in order to escape from there to Eretz Israel. Sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag, he spent 9 years in the camps. Released in 1954, he did not succeed in getting to Israel till 1972. He died in 1992. Remember & Save Association website
