Born in 1920 in Slonim, Poland, he became an active member of “Beitar” in his youth. In 1942 he joined the anti-Nazi resistance and escaped together with his family to the guerilla armed forces in the woods. In 1944−45 he fought in the ranks of the Red Army but after the War he began to be actively involved in Zionist activity, organizing the transfer of Jews to Poland and then to Eretz Israel. Arrested in 1946 on charges of conspiring in the organization of the flight of Jews from the Soviet Union to Poland and of “treachery to the Soviet motherland” he was sentenced by the military tribunal of Potsdam, Germany, to 10 years in the Gulag plus 5 years in exile. In 1947 he escaped from the transfer prison, but was caught and sent on to the camp where he served his sentence in Ivdlag. Released from the camp in 1954 and from exile in Karaganda in 1956, he succeeded in emigrating to Israel in 1966. Remember & Save Association website
