Yad Vashem Collections - Righteous

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Churbanov, Ivan Churbanova, Anna Ivan and Anna Churbanov, an elderly religious Russian couple, lived in the village of Gubino, located 7 km from the town of Zilupe in Latvia. For many years they were on friendly terms with the Jewish Lyakhovsky family from the neighboring village of Maslovo. Both the Churbanovs and the Lyakhovskys farmed their land and kept sheep, whose fleece they later sold. When the German troops occupied the area the Lyakhovskys still remained on their farm, until one day in late August 1941, the police came after them. They arrested the elderly Rasya Lyakhovskaya,...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Zagorskis Antons & Zagorska Eleonora ; Son: Francis

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Zagorskis, Antons Zagorska, Eleonora Zagorskis, Francis The Germans occupied Viļāni (in the Rezeknes District) in eastern Latvia on July 2, 1941. On the fourth of August, they ordered all the Jews to assemble next to the Russian school. Among those who received the directive were Lev Luban, his wife, Rachel, and their three children, 5-year-old Benzion, 9-year-old Ber, and 11-year-old Batsheva. All the Jews of Viļāni were massacred on that day, including Luban’s wife and children. Lev was alive when he fell into the killing pit. He waited under a pile of corpses until nightfall and...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.religion : Catholic

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Ritenis Jekabs & Maiga

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Ritenis, Jekabs Ritene, Maiga The Jewish Lifshits family resided in Liepaja, on 10, Veca Ostmala Street. The parents, Faive and Feiga Lifshits, traded wood; their children, Irma (b. 1920) and Shlomo (b. 1923) attended the Jewish gymnasium. After the Germans occupied the area, all male Jews were assigned to forced labor. One day in August 1941 Faive and Shlomo did not return home from work; they were shot in Shkede, together with other workers. After a short while Feiga and Irma found themselves in a temporary detention camp in the village of Otan’ki, near Nitza. When the work they were...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Torbik Trofim

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Torbik, Trofim Trofim Torbik was born in 1903 in the Bryansk District, Russia. At the beginning of 1941 he traveled to Latvia and settled in Liepaja, where he had found work. There he became acquainted with a Jewish woman Bluma Roberman and her ten-year-old daughter Marta, who also came to Latvia from Russia. Following the outbreak of the German-Soviet war Trofim and Bluma lost contact: Trofim, who took part in the city’s civil defense, was taken prisoner and sent as a slave laborer to Germany. Some time later he fell ill and was sent back to Liepaja. After his recovery Trofim found a job in...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Shelukhin Dorofey

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Shelukhin, Dorofei When the Germans occupied Latvia in the summer of 1941, Avram Gerson (b. 1912) was a newly married man living in Riga. In October his family was compelled to move into the ghetto, and Avram went daily to forced labor. While he was at work on November 30, 1941, his wife, three sisters, and parents were rounded up and murdered in the Rumbala forest. Avram survived in the shrinking ghetto despite successive Aktions (mass executions), until fleeing on June 23, 1943. Once away from the ghetto, Avram and his friend Meyer Elyashevich (b. 1913) contacted Dorofei Shelukhin, the...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Ozols Edgars & Ozola Emilija

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Berzina, Augusta Berzins, Juris Ozols, Edgar Ozola, Emilia Augusta Berzina, a painter and a medical nurse, lived in Riga with her son Juris (b. 1928). Their small three-room apartment was situated on the upper floor of a four storey building. During the German occupation Augusta did not have a permanent job but had to earn a living from casual work in addition to the money her former husband was giving her monthly. In the fall of 1941 Augusta sheltered Zara Frenkel and her sister Regina Rudina, two Jewish women who escaped from the Riga ghetto. Augusta knew them well: they...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Berzina Augusta ; Son: Berzins Juris

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results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Vabulis Janis

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results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Viksna Kristina

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Kristina Viksna Eizenija Apoga Katrina Apoga Kristina (Tina) Viksna, born in 1889, resided in Riga. In the 1920s, she worked as a nanny at the family of Lemech and Esther Kleiman, taking care of their four children, the youngest of which, Isaak, was born in 1924. When the children grew up and had no more need of a nanny, Viksna found another job, but occasionally visited her former wards, taking interest in their social and educational development. Following the German occupation, the Kleiman family was forced to move into the ghetto, and lost contact with their non-Jewish...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Apoga Eizenija ; Sister: Katrina

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results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.religion : Seventh-Day Adventist Church

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Balodis Tekla

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Balodis, Tekla Moshe-Rachmiel Ichlov was born in 1940 to a young couple. His parents Hirsh Ichlov and Sara Zelikovski lived in Daugavpils. Following the German occupation the family was interned in the ghetto, where Hirsh Ichlov perished in November 1941. One day at the end of April 1942 Sara hid her son in a potato sack and took him to her work place outside the ghetto. Tekla Balodis, who used to be Ichlovs’ before the war, was waiting for them there. She took the sack and headed back home. Being very cautious and not trusting her neighbors, she prepared a hiding place in advance under the...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Vilnis Kazimirs

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Vilnis Kazimirs The acquaintance between Kazimirs Vilnis, a Catholic priest, and Berl Packin, an observant Jew, began in 1940, during the short period of the first Russian occupation of Latvia. Packin was then working at the Soviet sawmill and was responsible for the distribution of building materials. Vilnis needed wood for constructing a new church in his parish in Riga, and Packin provided him with everything he needed. Since the Soviets forbade the construction of religious institutions using state funding, Packin could have been punished for this. Luckily, it did not happen. Vilnis, who had...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.religion : Catholic

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Priede Emma

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Priede, Emma Emma Priede, a Latvian, was born in 1899, and resided in Riga at Lacplesa Street. She worked as a janitor and a caretaker in her own apartment building and in two adjusting buildings. Emma was married and had two children. Her family members and she were practicing Baptists. In the spring of 1942 a man who introduced himself as Rudi Ankravs, a businessman, rented a basement at Lacplesa Str. 29. It was one of the buildings that Emma was responsible for. He equipped it with plaster, tools and various instruments, and then brought there a sculptor, Elmar Rivosh. From that day on...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.religion : Baptist Protestant

Pavels Ekab & Zelma

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Pavels, Ekab Pavela, Zelma In 1941 Ekab Pavels, who was a tailor, lived in Liepaja and temporarily worked as a janitor in the Evangelists’ Prayer House on Karolinski Street. His wife Zelma worked in the same place as a cleaning woman. One evening in December 1941, when the Germans already occupied Liepaja, Karlis Eilenberg, the prayer house conductor, came to work accompanied by Isaak Klavanski, a Jewish baker. After his escape from under arrest Klavanski led illegal life and was searched by Gestapo. The rescuers pitied the man and agreed to his temporary stay in the attic of the Prayer...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.religion : Evangelical Protestant

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Balodis Roberts & Balode Anna

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Roberts & Anna Balodis Dr. Binyamin Landa, a surgeon and a gynecologist, lived in the town of Subate, Ilukste County, where he held the position of the town hospital's head physician. After the Germans’ occupation of the town at the end of June 1941, Landa continued working at the hospital. On 8 July, however, police began to concentrate local Jews and ex-Soviet activists, and Landa applied to a former patient, Roberts Kanins, for help. Kanins secretly transferred the doctor and his wife, Chana, to relatives in Lithuania, bringing them back two weeks later. By that time, the Jews...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Perkone Elza

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Perkone, Elza Lev Zeligman and Michle Kantor, residents of Liepaja, got married on April 3, 1941, shortly before the beginning of the German occupation. From December 1941, when the danger for Jews became acute, they started hiding with the help of their non-Jewish acquaintance. One day, Lev’s former colleague, a photographer by the name of Becalis, brought them to his friend, Elza Perkone, who had given her consent to shelter the Jews for a while. Elza had a private house with a yard. Behind a house stood a barn, one part of which served as a lavatory and another one as a woodshed. That woodshed...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Schimelpfenig Otilija

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Seduls, Roberts Sedule, Johanna Schimelpfenig, Otilija Roberts Seduls, a former seaman and boxer, worked as the janitor of a building in Liepaja. Before the war he was on friendly terms with a Jewish resident of the building, David Zivcon, and had promised to help him in time of need. After the German occupation, Zivcon was put in the ghetto with the other Jews of the town. He was an expert technician and was therefore employed by the Germans as an electrician. It was during his work, while he was doing repair work in a German apartment, that he came upon photos of the killings...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Lieludre Marta

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Lieludre, Marta Before the Second World War, Marta Lieludre, in her forties, was the wealthy owner of a large farm in Taurkalnes County (today Valle, Bauskas District). During the 1930s, when she brought wheat to the flourmill in the region of Jaunjelgavas, the closest city, she met Solomon, the son of Tsalel Vesterman, the mill owner, who was a Jew, and she became friendly with the elder Vesterman. Solomon married and moved to Riga. There, two daughters were born to the couple. With the German conquest of Latvia, Solomon Vesterman was one of the few who survived the killing operations of the...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Lavrenov Ivan

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Ivan Lavrenov Ivan Lavrenov was born in 1909 in the vicinity of Utena, Lithuania. Before the German-Soviet war he was a farmer and worked on his own land. At the beginning of the German occupation, Lavrenov hid two runaway Russian POWs at his farm. The fact became known to the police, and he was arrested and sentenced to death. On the way to the shooting pit, however, he managed to escape. He went into hiding for a while and then moved to Latvia, where he hoped the police would not find him. A friend helped him to obtain an Ausweiss (job permit), and find work as a carpenter in the Castle of...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Kornilov Arseniy

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results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Pole Anna

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Pole, Anna-Alma Following the conquest of Riga on July 1, 1941, the Germans, aided by antisemitic Latvians, began to abuse, plunder, and murder Jews. A month later, about 30,000 of the city’s Jews were incarcerated in a sealed ghetto. Most of them were murdered in Rumbuli Forest in two killing operations carried out at the end of November and in December. During that period, Anna-Alma Pole, a Latvian housewife in her fifties, lived at 15 Peldu Street in Riga. Among her Jewish neighbors and acquaintances was Isaak Vange, a friend of her young son. In the summer of 1943, when the Germans began to...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Murdered

Rozentāls Friedrich & Rozentāle Wilhelmina (Putriņa); Son: Bruno ; Child: Edgars

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Rozentāls, Friedrich Rozentāle, Vilhelmina Rozentāls, Bruno Rozentāls, Edgars Friedrich Rozentāls (b. 1900) owned an estate near the village of Miltini, Zemgale, approximately 70 km southwest of Rīga. In 1931 his wife died leaving him to raise two sons, Bruno (b. 1925) and Edgars (b. 1928). Shortly before Germany invaded Latvia, Friedrich married Vilhelmina Putriņa (b. 1900). At the beginning of 1943, Friedrich became acquainted, through his brother Jānis Rozentāls, with Žanis Lipke* from Rīga. The latter was looking for possible hiding places outside Rīga for the persecuted Jews...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Matusiewich Anna ; Child: Jan ; Child: Arcihovska Jadwiga (Matusiewich)

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Matusiewich, Anna Matusiewich, Jan Arcihovska Matusiewich, , Jadviga Anna Matusiewich (b. 1885) and her children Jan (b. 1906) and Jadviga (b. 1924) a Polish family, lived on the outskirts of the town of Rēzekne, Latgale. Jan was a blacksmith and his workshop was adjacent to the house. For many years, they were friends and customers of the Izraelit brothers, who owned a store for agricultural equipment in Rēzekne. On July 3, 1941, the Germans occupied the town and during that month, most of the Jewish men living there were executed. The Matusiewiches were sure that the Izraelit brothers...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Klebais Margareta ; Sister: Aleksandra

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Klebais, Margareta Klebais, Aleksandra Margareta Klebais (b. 190) and her sister Aleksandra Klebais (b. 1906) lived in Rīga, in an apartment, in which they shared a kitchen and bathroom with several neighbors. During the German occupation, Margareta worked as a nurse in a military hospital and Aleksandra was a cook in a tuberculosis hospital. The two were Seventh Day Adventists, and in late 1941, through other members of the sect, they met young Frida Michelson. She had been wounded and left unconscious on top of the dead bodies in the pit during a massacre of the Jews of Rīga in the Rumbuli...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.religion : Seventh-Day Adventist Church

results.listIds.fate : Survived

Keller Maria ; Son: Arnold

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Dagarova-Noim, Aleksandra Keller, Marija Keller, Arnold In 1940, Aleksandra Bikše (b. 1909) a resident of Rīga, married David Epshtein, a Jewish architect and designer who also involved in the film industry where he used a pseudonym, Dagarov. After the marriage, Aleksandra changed her family name to Dagarova. With the German occupation of Rīga on July 1, 1941, Epshtein was interned in the ghetto and later in the Kaiserwald concentration camp. While Dagarova was searching for ways to get her husband out, she met Žanis Lipke*, who until then had smuggled scores of Jews out of the ghetto...

results.listIds.nationality : Latvia

results.listIds.fate : Survived

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