Gurevich Max Moiseevich (1915-1942)

Gurevich (Gurewitsch) Max Moiseevich (14 February 1915, Pskov – 13 April / 4 April 1942, village Sokolovo, Novgorod region) — combatant in the Second World War.

Born in Pskov, Max Gurevich moved to Latvia in 1918 and later worked at a textile factory in Riga. In 1936, he volunteered to fight on the Aragon Front during the Spanish Civil War, where he was wounded three times. In the period 1939–1941, he was detained in a concentration camp in France. Upon his return to Riga, with the onset of World War II, he enlisted in a Latvian antitank battalion on the Estonian front. Later, he served in the 122nd Rifle Regiment of the 201st Latvian Rifle Division. He was killed in action near Staraya Russa on 13 April 1942.

Reference:

Ватер Е. Евреи Латвии в борьбе с нацизмом/E. Vater, Jews of Latvia in the Fight Against Nazism, Riga, 2004, p. 21.

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