Galperin Volf Shevelevich (1906)

Galperin Volf (Wolf) Shevelevich (born 17 December 1906, Dvinsk – now Daugavpils) – timber grader.

Volf Galperin was born into the family of small entrepreneur Shevel Berovich Galperin (1876–1923, Dvinsk), who owned several horses and worked as a cabman, and housewife Revekka Solomonovna Galperina (née Zak) (1886, Dvinsk – murdered by the Nazis in the Riga ghetto in 1941).

He completed six years at the Russian school in Dvinsk (1921) and worked as a locksmith and turner at Trube’s private workshop in Panevėžys, Lithuania (1922–1928). He served in the 10th Infantry Regiment of the Latvian Army (1928–1929), then worked in Dvinsk as a locksmith for Monosevich (1929), and as a chauffeur for various employers (1930–1933). From 1934 to 1940, he was a timber grader for the company “Berman, br. Novik.” In 1940–1941, he worked as a locksmith-craftsman.

From 1941 to 1947, Volf Galperin worked as a driver for Trust No. 58 and the Special Construction Unit No. 19 of Glavneftspetsstroy in Kuybyshev, Saratov, and Kharkov. He was awarded the Medal “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.” He continued working as a driver for the “Yuzhvodstroy” trust (1947–1948) in Kharkov and Stalino. After returning to Latvia, he worked for “Transvodstroy” in Salacgrīva (1948), then in Riga as a locksmith at Auto Repair Shop No. 155 (1948–1949), and as a salesman and senior salesman at the Latbumsbyt office (1949–1954). From 1954 to 1956, he worked at industrial and household goods stores, then as a team leader in the “Baltija” artel (1957–1960), worker in the “Draudzība” cooperative and at the “Kvēle” factory (1960–1961), toy assembler (1961–1964), and home-based assembler for PO Box 211 of the “Straume” plant (1964–1966), and for the “Somdaris” complex (1967–1968). From 1968, he was retired.

He married Dveira Eliasovna Galperina (née Abramson) (born 1906, Jēkabpils District, Latvia), and had two sons: Saul Volfovich Galperin (born 1936, Dvinsk) and Elja Vulfovich Galperin (born 1948, Riga).

In 1979, he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his sister Khanna Shevelevna Galperina (born 1917, Vladimir) had lived since 1977.

Note: In 1956, Khanna and her family moved to Poland, then to France in 1957, and finally to Israel in 1977.

Family:

Shevel Berovich Galperin (1876–1923) – father
Revekka Solomonovna Galperina (née Zak) (1886–1941) – mother
Lyuba Shevelevna Galperina (born 1904, Dvinsk – murdered 1941, Riga ghetto) – sister
Zalaman Shevelevich Galperin (born 1909 – murdered 1942, Dvinsk ghetto) – brother
Maya Shevelevna Zavadovskaya (née Galperina) (born 1914, Dvinsk – 1976, Paris) – sister
Khanna Shevelevna Galperina (born 1917) – sister
Miryam Yehudovna Shneybaum (née Grinblat) – cousin (resided in Paris in 1967)
Dveira Eliasovna Galperina (née Abramson) (born 1906) – wife
Saul Volfovich Galperin (born 1936) – son
Elja Vulfovich Galperin (born 1948) – son