Born in 1921 in Chernovtsy, Romania, he was a member of organization "Beitar" from 1937 till 1940. At the beginning of WWII, he was evacuated to Aktyubinsk, USSR, where he was arrested in 1944 on charges of his previous Zionist activities. These included the spreading of the idea, among Jews in Khazakhstan, of the necessity for a Jewish State in Eretz Israel in which Jews around the world could settle. Sentenced in 1945 by OSO (Special Court of NKVD) to 7 years in the Gulag, he served his time in the concentration camps of Aktyubinsk and Siberia. He was released in 1951. Remember & Save Association website
