Fleisher Yakov Meyerovich (1927)

Fleisher (Fleischner) Yakov (Jakow) Meyerovich (1927, Tukums — date of death unknown) - worker.

Yakov Fleishner was born into the family of Meer Shleimovich Fleisher (born 1882), a general laborer, and Eva Lvovna Fleisher (born 1901), a housewife. From 1935 to 1941 he studied at the Jewish primary school in Tukums.

When the Nazi Germany invaded, his family was evacuated to the Kirov region, to the town of Kotel’nich, where from the age of fourteen he worked in a state farm. In 1942 his father died of a heart attack, and shortly afterward his mother and sister Basya Meerovna (born 1925) also died. In 1945 he returned to Tukums, where he worked as a supply agent in the district consumer cooperative. In 1947 he was drafted into the Soviet Army, where he served until 1953.

From 1950 to 1963 he worked as a hauler, and from 1963 to 1970 as a timber hauler in the forestry enterprise (lespromkhoz) of Tukums. From 1970 he worked as a laborer at an industrial combine. He had two children: a daughter, Eva Yakovlevna Fleisher (born 1951), and a son, Misha Yakovlevich Fleisher (born 1954).

Family:

Meyer Shleimovich Fleisher (1882) – father
Eva Lvovna Fleisher (1901) – mother
Basya Meerovna Fleisher (1925) – sister
Eva Yakovlevna Fleisher (1951) – daughter
Misha Yakovlevich Fleisher (1954) – son

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