Photos of Latvian Jewish Personalities in Shefayim Archives
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Photo numbers
Family NAME
First name
Place
Dates
Comments
Page
1474, 2038
ABOLOSKY
Yisrael
1
2582
AVIL
Zundel
Newspaper man
1
2145
ABRAMOVITZ
R.
1
3271 - 3283
ABRAHAMSON
Max
Riga
1927-1931
With doctors from "Bikur Cholim"
1
1916
ADLER
W.
Libau
1
3243
ETINGOF
Michal
1
2155
ETTINGEN
Eliezer
1
1862; 2010-2033; 2130-31
AMIR [BLIACH]
Moshe
Dvinsk
1915-1960
1
2573-77;2577; 2569-2572
AMIR [BLIACH]
Moshe
Dvinsk
With pictures of Dvinsk
1
2661
IMMERMAN
Anatol
1
1835-1836
ORLEAN
Meier
Priel
1
1339; 1957
ANTIN
Kalman
Liuzon
2839-2843
ARANS
Feibush
Riga
1935-1949
Actor
1
83-89
ARGOV
Nechemia
Israel
1
260-62; 1324; 1698-1707
ARONSON
Nachum
Kraslava
1938
Artist
1
1473
ARNSTEIN
Sarah
In the Red Army
1
3284
ARENS
Misha
Born in Lithuania, Kovno
1
2057
GOREN
Zalman
Dvinsk
A doctor, with KAPLINSKY
1
1340; 2325-31
BAG
Baruch
Riga
1929
1
3116; 3060
BAG
Baruch
Riga
1924
With Miriam SCHEINMANN
1
2846-2856
BAG
Baruch
Riga
1924-1928
A sport celebration
2
269
B. BAG & LEVINBERG
Riga
2
3113 - 3114
BAG
Baruch
Dvinsk
With Dvinskers "Bar-Kochba"
2
BAG
Baruch
Riga
1929
With "HaPoal"
2
2422; 2620-21; 2765-68;
BAG
Baruch
With Zvi SEGEL, Etti CHANOCH
2
2917 - 2918
BAG
Freidel
Riga
With Yitzhak MAOR
2
2731 - 2740
BAG
Fruma
Riga
2
2716 - 2730
BAG
Clara
Riga
2
1858
BAG
Shalom
Riga
Father of Baruch BAG
2
2741 - 42
BAG
Naim, Yitzhak and Clara
Riga
2
2743 - 44
BAG
Eliezer and Yehuda
Riga
1911
2
2745 - 2751
BAG
Chaim
Riga
2
2928; 2866
BAG
Emanuel
Riga
1928
2
2696 - 2715
BAG
Baruch
Riga
1897 - 1927
And family
2
2636 - 38; 2858 - 65; 2305 - 24
BAG
Baruch
Riga
At Wingate Institute
2
40; 52 - 74; 207; 1826 - 1827
BOBE
Mendel
Riga
And family
2
1864. 2141. 2491
BOBE
Mendel
Riga
2
2578 - 2579
BOBE
Mendel
Riga
With newspapermen in Riga
2
1233 - 1234
BACH
Shalom
Rezhitsa
2
2264 - 65
BACH
Chava
Rezhitsa
2
1925 - 1926
BLUMENAU
Riga
1922
Architect
3
321; 2476; 758
BLUMENTHAL
Kurt
Riga
1930
3
2897 - 99
BLUMENTHAL
Hendel
3
2836 - 283?
BLOCH
Avraham
Riga
3
1966
BLACH
Moshe
Dvinsk
1917
In the Russian Army
3
90 -1092; 119 - 122
BELKIN
Moshe
Rezhitsa
1929 - 1933
3
2175; 2282 - 2288
BELKIN
Moshe
Rezhitsa
3
1323
BEN GURIN
Libau
1933
3
310 - 315; 1843
BEN GURIN
Riga
1933
3
2128
BEN YITZHAK
Israel
3
1880
BEN ZION
Rabbi Yechia
3
293 - 294
BARON
Avraham
Cuba
3
2580 - 81; 2674
BERKOWITZ
Henri
Paris
3
2183
BARKAN
Yosef
Liutzin
3
2683
BRACHMAN
Max
Windau
1930
3
3197
BIRNBAUM
T.
1939
3
1761
CHANUTIN, Z.LAZERSON, M., RIBUSCH
Riga
3
2277 - 2278
LAZERSON, NUROK, DUBIN, FISCHMAN
Riga
Members of the Latvian Sem [Parliament]
3
2760
GUDIS
Herman
Shoah survivor in Riga
4
2759
GUDIS
Zashne
4
1576
GUT
Eliazer
1932
4
1243
GUTMAN
Getzel
Varkelein
1918
Mayor of the town
4
292 - 93; 2353; 2355 - 2391
GOLDMAN
Alter
Dvinsk
1919; 1930
4
3261 - 3270; 3286 - 3302
GOLDMAN
Alter
Dvinsk
1966 - 1972
4
1289 - 1299
GOLINSKY
Zvi
Dvinsk
1918 - 1921
One of the founders of HeChalutz
4
1588
GILINSKY
Yosef
1917
In the Zionist Committee in Peterburg
4
1476
GOLD
Raphael
In the Red Army
4
3122
GOFERER
Yanil
Riga
1923
Head of the Organisation of Scouts
4
1586; 1815 - 1819; 1939 - 40; 2877 - 2888
GORDON
Dr. Zalman
Dvinsk
1915 - 1919 - 1928
Medical Doctor
4
2900 - 01; 2041 - 2044; 2259 - 61
GORDON
Dr. Zalman
Dvinsk
1915 - 1919 - 1928
Medical Doctor
4
2689 - 90; 2890
GORDON
Alexander
Dvinsk
4
2889
GORDON
Monia
Dvinsk
4
2892
GORDON
Sacha
Dvinsk
4
2187 - 88
GIL
Geula
1966
A singer from Israel in Riga
4
34
GUINZBURG
Shimon
Riga
4
113 - 17; 118
GLUCKMAN [GIL]
E[manuel]
Riga
4
200 - 203
GECHSTEN
Bertha
Rezhitsa
1932
5
1254; 1574 - 75
GELCHBER
Shlomo Yosef
Prisoner of Zion
5
295 - 297
GROSS
Abraham
Riga
5
2761
GARFINKEL
Herman
Riga
Holocaust survivor
5
451
GARFINKEL
Zvi
Liudin
1929
5
265 - 267
GERTZ [MOSHOWITZ]
M
1950
Riga newspaperman
5
279 - 280
DUBIN
Mordechai
Riga
Members of the Latvian Sem [Parliament]
5
278; 281; 1839 - 42; 3192
DUBONOW
Shimon
Riga
5
2857
DOLGITZER
Ber
Riga
Boxer
5
1891
DEITZ
family
5
1246
DIMANT
Feibush
Varkelein
5
1247
TZINZIPER
Benjamin
Kraslava
5
288
HAFF
family
5
286
HOFFMAN
Ya'akov
Riga
5
2149
HINDMAN
Ya'akov
5
1258 - 1266
HELMAN
Ya'akov
Riga
5
214 - 221
HELPERN
Issar
Dvinsk
1930
5
3193
HERZFELD
Dr. B.
1937
5
2143
WASSERMAN
Herman
6
1921
WALSHANK
Avigdor
Riga
Chairman of "Agudat Yisrael"
6
2146
WITENBERG
Shimon
6
1226
WITENBERG
Reuven
Dvinsk
"Agudat Yisrael"
6
299 - 301; 2274 - 76
WEILER
A.
Riga
1932 - 1933
6
1682 - 1683
WEINBERG
Yisrael
Talsen
6
76
WEINTRAB
Max
Dvinsk
6
1245
VILENSKY
Nathan
6
2174
WILENSKY
Varkelein
6
282
VINIK
Yerachmiel
Riga
6
3101 - 3102
WIKS
Riga
Head of the Latvian Scouts
6
VESTERMAN
Y.
Riga
1937
Soccer player
6
2140
ZEBE
Sam
With his wife
6
2492 - 96; 2525; 3107
JABOTINSKY
Ze'ev
Riga
1928; 1933
6
319 - 321
ZIV
Eliyahu
Riga
1932
6
21 - 28
ZIV
Prof. Benjamin
Riga
1930
6
75
ZILBER
Zavel
Dvinsk
6
1239 - 40
ZILBER
Brand
Bulvi
6
1223
ZILBERMAN
Shlomo
Priel
6
1879
JAK
Rabbi Mendel
Riga
Rabbi
6
2226
CHITER
Raphael
Riga
Latvian soldier
7
2227; 2642
CHEN
Avraham
Dvinsk
7
1820; 1883; 1930 - 31; 2069
CHEN
Mordechai
Dvinsk
1930
7
2079; 2100; 2228 - 29
CHEN
Mordechai
Dvinsk
1929
7
2679 - 2680
CHEN
Mordechai
With Levi ESHKOL
7
208 - 210; 2454
CHEN
Samel
Dvinsk
1987
With Mordechai CHEN
7
2422; 2620 - 21; 3284
CHANOCH
Etti
Dvinsk
1987
7
130 - 39; 151 - 59; 160 - 69
CHANOTIN
Zalman
Rezhitsa
1924 - 1935
Gymnasium from Rezhitsa
7
178 - 185
CHANOTIN
Zalman
Rezhitsa
1924 - 1931
With the teachers
7
186 - 199
CHANOTIN
Zalman
Rezhitsa
1927 - 1935
With Zionist activists
7
2535 - 48
TAGGER
Lieb
Visit in Israel
7
1472
TEITZ
Ya'akov
7
1832 - 1833
YAKNIN
Monia
Dvinsk
7
302 - 303
YAKNIN
family
Dvinsk
7
2446 - 2453
YADLOVKER
Herman
Riga
Singer
7
2675 - 76
YUDIN
Nachman
7
276; 1688
YAKOBSON
Rabbi Moshe
Hasenpoth
Rabbi
7
2263
YAFFE
Lazer
1939
8
1224; 3143
YAFFE
Lieb
8
1249; 1689
YAFFE
Zvi
Hasenpoth
8
277
YAFFE
Shmuel [Molka]
Riga
8
444
YAFFE
Izrael
1915
8
2844; 1572
YARIV
Aharon Aluf
Libau
8
2158
COHEN
Baruch
8
2272 - 73
CASPI
1930
Latvian Consul in Jerusalem
8
2627
KATZ
Yitzhak
Holocaust survivor
8
1838
KARPAS
Shmuel
Dvinsk
8
2157
LAWITZ
Lazer
8
1272; 1712
LUBOTZKY
Chaim
Rezhitsa
HaRav HaGaon
8
2100
LEVIT
Esther
1929
8
220
LEVINE
David
8
2138
LEVITAN
Menachem Mendel
Dvinsk
Murdered by the Nazis
8
2147
LUNTZ
Wolf
8
2140; 2115; 2267 - 69; 2616
LOSUS, ZEBA, LIPSHITZ
Israel
8
1 - 11; 1762; 2876
LURIA
Esther
Riga
1925 - 1931
Artist
8
273 - 74; 2266
LAZERSON
Max
Riga
1929
9
190 - 192
LIAK
Abraham
Rezhitsa
9
2089
LIUTEK
Dvinsk
9
1256
LICHTENSTEIN
Shmuel
Tukum
9
1458; 1590; 2192
LUPKE
Jan
Riga
Righteous Gentile
9
1886
LIPSCHITZ
Mordechai
9
127 - 29; 1863; 2142; 2584 - 5
LIPSCHITZ
Shaul
Riga
9
1265
LETZKY
Phillip
Riga
Writer
9
1759
MAVSHAWITSH
Gertz
Riga
1939
9
2917 - 18
MAOR
Yitzhak
Riga
With Freidel BAG
9
1244
MATIS
Chaya
Varkelein
9
3165 - 3175; 3178
MORENU
Chana
Dvinsk
In kindergarten
9
1309 - 1314; 3160 -61
MORENU
Moshe
Dvinsk
1931
9
3130 - 3135
MORENU
Greka and Chana
Dvinsk
9
211 - 213
MICHELSON
Ziga
Riga
1920
9
190 - 192
MORLIN
Wolf
Rezhitsa
9
2458
MEIZEL
Noach
Dvinsk
9
2667
MICHELSON
Ruva
9
2158
MICHELSON
Shlomo
9
2270
MILMAN
Tartu
1936
10
2159
MILMAN
Ulrich
10
12 - 17; 270 - 272
MINTZ
Paul, Nachum, Vladimir, Arnold, Max
Riga
Five brothers
10
1765 - 1768; 1793; 1946
MINTZ
Paul, Nachum, Vladimir, Arnold, Max
1919; 1935; 1940
10
1938
MILIATZKY
Benjamin
10
2666
MINDELIN
Mosia
10
2037
MARGOLIS
Yosif
1923
10
318;2639; 2895
NUROK
Rabbi
Riga
1925, 1934, 1966
10
1865
NEISHTAT
Mordechai
10
1250
SEGEL
Gika
Dvinsk
10
2422 - 2427; 2052
SEGEL
Tzvi
Riga
10
1887
SOCHOBOKOV
Family
Kursovka
10
1937
STEEL
Yehuda
Dvinsk
1937
10
2348
STEEL
Meier
1936
10
35 - 42
SEMONOV
Yitzhak
Windau
10
2673; 2632
SEMONOV
Rabbi
Windau
10
2905 - 2906
STRINSKY
Raya
Riga
1928
10
1892 - 1895
SAKRUTO
Rabbi
Rezhitsa
1912
10
3198 - 3211; 3218 - 3220
TZISER
Y.
Riga
1940 - 43; 1985
Actor
11
264; 2456
TZIDON
Ya'akov
1947
11
3285
TZIGLING
Aharon
11
268
POPERKOVITZ
Nachum
11
3157 - 3159
FEIGIN
Beba
Dvinsk
11
1769
FEITELBERG
Aharon
11
1837; 2446 -2453
FEIGELSON
Yisrael
Riga
Singer
11
2903 -04
FEINEROV
Nechama
Dvinsk
11
1941
FEINSTEIN
Aharon
Dvinsk
11
2457
FISHMANN
Chaim
Riga
11
19 - 20; 2154
FISHMANN
Lieb
Riga
Member of the Latvia Sem [Parliament]
11
263
PLAKCHIN
Ezriel
Kraslava
With Achuv LEIBEL, HIRSCH
11
289 -291
FLIYOR
Yehuda
Dvinsk
11
1672 - 1676
PEPERMANN
Rabbi Nachum
Kraslava
11
1270
PRANTZER
Shachne
Kreitzburg
War invalid
11
207
PRUDINSKY
Ida
Varkelein
11
1517; 1573
FREED
Hinda
Varkelein
Also Esther FREED
11
1773 - 1774
FREED
Yehoshua
Varkelein
1933 - 1937
Poet
11
1752 - 1758
FREEDMANN
Rabbi Yechiel
Dankere
11
1269
FREEDMANN
Yosef
Riga
1937
11
1255
KAVNET
Asher
Latvian Division [army]
12
KAPLAN
Nechama
Dvinsk
Murdered by the Nazis
12
1849
KAPLINSKY
Dvinsk
1929
A party in his honour
12
1896 - 1898
KADOSHEVITZ
Dvinsk
12
3113 - 3114
KURT
Shlomo
1924
12
2762
KOHLMANN
Arieh
12
2763 - 64
KINEMANN
Abrasha
12
2144
KATZNELSON
Nissan
Member of the Duma
12
1475
KAPLAN
Dov
War fighter
12
1237
KRAMER
Livani
12
1690
KRISIN
Betzalel
12
77 - 79
KRUPKIN
Yosef
Riga
One of the founders of HeChalutz
12
2392 -2420
KROMINSCH
Riga
Saved Jews
12
1232
RAVINSON
Rabbi
Kraslava
12
2485
RABINER
Rabbi
Dvinsk
12
1823
RUBENSTEIN
Erika
Dvinsk
1928
12
2909
RUBENSTEIN
Gusta
12
1882
RUBASHOV [SHAZAR]
Zalman
Dvinsk
Became president of Israel
12
1267 - 1268
RUBOVSKY
Avraham
12
2148
RUBOVSKY
H.
13
222 - 259; 1463 - 69
ROITKAPF
Dina
Riga
1930 - 1974
Actress
13
2874
RAZUMANI
Lieb
Riga
Writer
13
278
RAZUMANI
Riga
1938
With DUBNOW
13
3244
RIBOVSKY
Avraham
13
3136 40; 3147 - 3151
RIVKIN
David, Nadia, Henia
13
273 - 274; 2583
RIBOSH
Feibush
Riga
13
3154 - 3156
SHARFSTEIN
Reizle
Dvinsk
13
2039
SHULTZ
D.
13
1984; 2070
SHAZAR
Zalman
1930
Visit to Dvinsk
13
43 - 51; 1253
SHTRUK
Avraham
Dvinsk
1926 - 1930
13
2908
SHTRUK
Hillel and wife
Saved Jews
13
2153
STEINBERG
Y. N.
13
3058 - 59; 3115 - 16; 3120
SHEINKMANN
Miriam
Riga
1923 -24
Director of Tzofot [Girl Scouts]
13
1238
SHEINKIN
Bobka
13
1306
SHEINKMANN
Mari
13
2152
SHEINFELD
13
29 - 33; 285
SHALIT
Lieb
Riga
1900
13
1227
SIMCHA
Rabbi Maier
Dvinsk
1927
13
1914
SHER
Ya'akov
14
2469 - 71; 2625
SHPUNGIN
Avraham
Jacobstadt
14
2875
SCHNEIDER
Gertrude
Riga
United States
14
2927
SHEFTELVITZ
Gabriel
14
204 - 207
TAGGER
Arieh Lieb
Riga
14