Born on April 4th, 1920 in Lithuania, he got involved, in 1944, in assisting in the illegal transfer of Jews from the USSR to Poland and from there to Eretz Israel. After 2 years of this activity he was arrested in 1946 in Vilnius and sentenced to 3 years in the Gulag. Released in 1948, his dream of living in Israel did not come true till 1979. Remember & Save Association website