Born on March 25th, 1923 in Lithuania, when young he joined “Hashomer Hatzair”. After the occupation by USSR he hid most of the Zionist library books in his town. He was conscripted into the Red Army and wounded twice during the war. After the war he organized a student group for Hebrew study, and in 1945−49 headed the Zionist publicity campaign for the freedom to travel to Israel. He also engaged in the distribution of Jewish books among Zionist activists throughout Soviet Union. He found some of the books, which he had hidden in Kovno, and transferred them to Vilno and Leningrad. He was arrested in the end of 1949 and sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment in Kolyma. Although released in 1955, it still took him till 1975 to get to Israel.
