| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Efuns |
| Name | Girsh |
| Patronym | Alexandrovich |
| Birth year | 1908 |
| Birth place | Latvia |
| Death year | 1941 |
| Sex | M |
Efuns (Jefnus) Girsh (Girsch) Alexandrovich (1908, Latvia – 1941).
Girsh Efnus was born into a family of saddlers. After graduating from school, he worked as a typesetter in a printing house in Daugavpils, from 1926 to 1939 – as a typesetter and then as the head of an illegal printing house of the Latgale Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia; he led an illegal military organisation under the Communist Party of Latvia. During World War II, his family was evacuated to Bashkiria; Girsh Efnus volunteered for the Latvian Rifle Division, was deputy political officer, then deputy battalion commissar. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In December 1941, he was killed in action near Moscow.