Yosef Ben Pinhas Surkis

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Born in 1917 in Czechoslovakia during the same year that his family returned to Bukovina, he was an active member of “Beitar” from 1936 to 1940. Arrested in 1942, accused of treason and Zionist propaganda he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment which he served in the Karaganda and Krasnoglinka camps. Released in 1952 he succeeded in getting to Israel only 20 years later, in 1972. Remember & Save website
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