Born in 1918 in a shtetle near Kamenets, Russia, he, while serving in the Soviet occupation forces in Germany in 1946, was arrested on a charge of encouraging Jewish officers and soldiers of the Soviet Army to flee to West Berlin and from there to Palestine-Eretz Israel. He was sentenced by the military tribunal to 7 years in the Gulag where he served his sentence in the high security camp of “Artemlag”. Came to Israel in 1959. Remember & Save Association website
