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Korman Max (1913)

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SurnameKorman
NameMax
Birth year1913
Birth placeRiga
SexM

Korman (Kormann) Max (1913, Riga) ― prisoner of Zion.

At the age of 14, Max Korman organised a trade union of Zionist students who studied Jewish history and Zionism, distributed explanatory Zionist materials and worked for the Keren HaKaemeth fund. After the Soviet occupation, he was exiled to Siberia. In 1945, he was arrested on charges of Zionist activity against the existing regime. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison and 5 years of exile. He served his sentence in Tomsk, Omsk and Norilsk. He was released in 1958, and in 1986 he managed to leave for Israel.

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