Artist of the Museum of Jewish culture (1939). A graduate of the Art Institute and the Odessa Institute of public education, in 1933, was expelled from the party. In 1950, at the time of arrest by order of UMHB in the Odessa region, worked as the scientific Secretary and the scientific Secretary of the Odessa art Museum. He was accused of Jewish nationalism in a hostile attitude to the existing system, active nationalist anti-Soviet agitation. Resolution of the special meeting with the Minister of GB, the USSR, dated 14 April 1951 Merger imprisoned in a forced labor camp for a period of 10 years. In 1955, the USSR Prosecutor's office, his case was reviewed, the charge was found not proven, because "all the witnesses were undercover agents of the MGB". All those convicted were released
