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Menachem Begin was born on August 16, 1913, in Brest-Litovsk in 1913. As a child, he was forced to flee with his family to escape the fighting between the German and Russian armies in World War I.

A passionate Zionist from an early age, he joined Ze’ev Jabotinsky’sBetar youth movement in his teens and quickly rose to important administrative and leadership positions.

By 1936, he was in charge of Betar Czechoslovakia, and, in 1938, he became the head of Betar Poland, an organization with 100,000 members that engaged in weapons training to defend Polish Jewry, preparation and transport of “illegal” immigrants to Israel, agricultural training, and communications.

In 1940, Begin was imprisoned in Siberian labor camps by Josef Stalin’s NKVD (a forerunner of the KGB).

After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, he was set free by dint of his Polish citizenship and joined the Free Polish Army, which in 1943 made its way to British­ controlled Palestine for tra