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