Born in 1914 in Poland, he joined the Zionist movement “Beitar” at a young age. Before WWII he was very active in this movement in Proshkow and vicinity and from 1941 to 1944 he was an active participant in the underground Zionist movement in the town of Mary, in Turkmenistan. In 1944 he tried to escape the USSR illegally through the Persian border in order to reach Palestine-Eretz Israel, but was arrested and sentenced to 8 years in the Gulag plus 4 years of exile. Released in 1955, he still had to wait till 1961 before getting to Israel. Remember & Save Association website
