Adler Isaak Yuryevich (1913-1973)

Adler Isaak Yuryevich (4 February 1913, Jelgava – 1973) – Shoemaker

In 1926, Isaak Adler completed four years of schooling in Liepaja. From 1926 to 1933, he worked as a footwear maker for a private entrepreneur named Glago in Liepāja. From 1933 to 1940, he was employed in the Singer workshop in Riga, and from 1940 to 1941, he worked as a footwear maker at the Sport cooperative.

In 1941, Isaak Adler was imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto. In 1943, he managed to escape and remained in hiding until the liberation of Latvia, sheltered by a citizen named Brivers at Akas Street in Riga.

From 1944 to 1964, Isaak Adler worked as a footwear maker at the Latvian Railway Supply Organisation (ORS), the Spars cooperative, and the Kirov District Household Services Complex in Riga. In 1964, due to illness, he became a second-degree disabled person and was unable to continue working.

During World War II, A. lost his mother, brother, sister, wife, and daughter:

Mother: Gita Adler (née Zinter) (1882–1941)
Sister: Tsipa Leibovitch (née Adler) (1916–1941)
Brother: Wulf Adler (1923–1941)
(All three were executed in Liepaja.)

First wife: Eva Adler (née Niselson) (1910–1941)
Daughter: Tsivya Adler (1937–1941)
(Both were executed in Riga.)

His surviving sister, Taube Milstein (née Adler) (1914), emigrated to Israel in 1966.

In the 1940s, Isaak Adler remarried Leah Adler (née Fogel) (1919). In 1971, he applied for an exit visa to Israel but was denied. His family left Latvia in the 1970s.

Family Members:

Uri Adler (1887–1941) – father
Gita Adler (née Zinter) (1882–1941) – mother
Tsipa Leibovitch (née Adler) (1916–1941) – sister
Vulf Adler (1923–1941) – brother
Eva Adler (née Nieselsohn) (1910–1941) – first wife
Tsivya Adler (1937–1941) – daughter
Taube Milstein (née Adler) (1914) – sister (emigrated to Israel in 1966)
Leah Adler (née Vogel) (1919) – second wife
Uri Adler (born 1946) – son
Boris Adler (born 1951) – son