Born in 1922 in Shavli, Lithuania, he spent WWII in the ghetto but after the war, he and his friends organized underground routes to Eretz Israel through Poland. Arrested in 1946 on the Polish border, he was sentenced to 3 years in the Gulag. On his release in 1949 he returned to Lithuania and applied for an exit visa to go to Israel numerous times but was refused on five separate occasions. Not until 1972 did he obtain the desired permission to leave the USSR for Israel. Remember & Save Association website
