Born in 1929 in Kaunas, Lithuania, he became a member of “Beitar” from 1938 till 1941. In 1945−1946 he had some connections with the underground organization “HaBrikha” and organized the flights of Jews from Lithuania to Eretz Israel through Poland. Arrested in 1946, he was charged with Zionist subversive activity and also “treachery to the Soviet motherland”. He was sentenced by OSO (a special board of NKVD) to 10 years in the Gulag. His sentence was served in the hard labor concentration camps of Vorkuta. Released in 1954, he remained a prisoner in his own land till 1990 when he got permission to leave for Israel together with his family. Remember & Save Association website
