Glezer Mordukh Abramovich (1920)

Glezer Mordukh Abramovich (b. 4 April 1920, Riga) – white-collar worker.

Mordukh Glezer was born to Abram Leibovich Glezer (1892, Lyubavichi, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus – 1937, Riga) and Minna Leizerovna Glezer (née Levin, 1894–1929, Riga). After completing six years of school in 1934, he worked in Riga as an apprentice in a private mechanical workshop (1934–1935), then trained and worked as a furrier at the private furrier’s shop Narsta (1935–1938), and later as a fur finisher at the Ada fur factory (1938–1941).

During the Nazi occupation, Mordukh Glezer was interned in the Riga Ghetto (1941–1943). In 1943, he was deported to the Porhov death camp in Pskov Oblast, from which he escaped and joined the partisans. He fought in the 3rd Herman Brigade (1943–1944, Leningrad Oblast) and served in the 119th Independent Anti-Tank Destroyer Battalion in 1944. He was severely wounded on the Karelian Front and demobilised that same year.

Mordukh Glezer was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class, the Medals For the Defence of Leningrad, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945, and other commemorative awards.

After returning to Riga, he worked again as a fur master at the Ada fur factory (1944–1950), then as a dyeing master at the Zvaygzne artel (1950–1952), and later as a procurement agent for the Glavvtorsyryo office (1952–1958). In 1958, he was convicted under Articles 118 and 19 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code and served a sentence in Olaine (1958–1960). Upon release, he worked in procurement at the Riga City Interdistrict Procurement Office of the Latvian Consumer Cooperative Union (1960–1975).

He married Minna Iosifovna Glezer (née Bunes, b. 1927, Kuldīga, Latvia), and they had a son, Iosif Mordukhovich Glezer (b. 1951, Riga).

In 1975, Mordukh Glezer received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his sister-in-law, Tsivia Iosifovna Bunes (b. 1925, Kuldīga), had been living since 1972.

Family:

– Father: Abram Leibovich Glezer (1892–1937)
– Mother: Minna Leizerovna Glezer (née Levin, 1894–1929)
– Brother: Lazar Abramovich Glezer (b. 1921, Riga)
– Brother: Yakov Abramovich Glezer (b. 1927 – went missing in the Riga Ghetto)
– Sister: Dora Abramovna Glezer (b. 1925 – murdered by Nazis in the Riga Ghetto, 1941)
– Wife: Minna Iosifovna Glezer (née Bunes, b. 1927)

– Son: Iosif Mordukhovich Glezer (b. 1951)

– Sister-in-law: Tsivia Iosifovna Bunes (b. 1925)