Photos of Latvian Jewish Personalities in Shefayim Archives



Information from the holdings of the Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews at Kibbutz Shefayim is made available by kind permission of the Association and its Archivist, Shlomo Kurlandchik.

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





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