Simcha Gellman

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Born in 1915 in Poland, he became a member of the Zionist movement «Dror» (Freedom) at a very early age and then became an activist in «Poalei Zion» (Workers of Zion). At the beginning of WWII he escaped to Armenia, but in 1944 was arrested in Yerevan, charged with Zionist propaganda. Sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag, he spent his sentence in various concentration camps in Siberia, among them in Wetlag. Released in 1954, he received permission to go to Poland in 1957 and in the same year he got to Israel. He died in 1982. Remember & Save Association website
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