Anatoly Rubin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Israeli holocaust survivor from Belarus
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Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus
About Anatoly Rubin
- Anatoly (Yitzhak) Rubin was a survivor of the Holocaust and later a survivor of the Gulags.
- Born in Minsk, in what was then the USSR, he survived the German invasion of the USSR in a remote village and was almost killed while trying to join the Partisans.
- He spent six years imprisoned in Siberian gulags for distributing books sympathetic to Zionism.
- After being under investigation by the KGB for spreading Zionist ideas, he emigrated to Israel in 1969.
- Once there, he campaigned for the Israeli government to assist others who wished to emigrate from the USSR to Israel.
- He also published memoirs of his earlier experiences.
- He died in Jerusalem in 2017.
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