Born in 1925 in Riga, Latvia, into a Zionist family, which was banished to Siberia in 1941. Herman and his father were imprisoned in the camp near Solikamsk in the Urals where his father died. In 1942 he moved to the city of Tomsk where he organized Zionist activities. During 1946, he was repeatedly arrested and eventually sentenced to 7 years in a labour camp. After that he was exiled to Siberia and not released till 1959 after 10 years imprisonment in camps and 10 years of exile. He finally got to Israel in 1972 where he died in 1992. Remember & Save website
