Ioelson Yefim Yakovlevich (1913-1973)

Ioelson (Ioelsohn) Yefim Yakovlevich (27 November 1913, Riga – ?) – physician.

In 1932 Yefim Ioelson left Latvia for Czechoslovakia (Brno) to study. In 1938 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Bologna University (Italy). In 1938–40 he worked as a doctor at the Bikur Holim Hospital in Riga. In 1940–41 he was a doctor at Riga’s 2nd City Polyclinic and the 4th City Hospital. In 1941 he was evacuated to Kokand, where he worked as a doctor at the medical unit of the Oil Technical College.

In 1942 he volunteered for the front and served as a military doctor until 1946. Returning to Riga in 1945, he worked as an emergency physician (1945–47), then as a doctor at the Labour Medical Commission (1947–55). In 1955–77 he was a surgeon at the polyclinic of the 6th Combined Hospital. From 1977 he worked as a surgeon at Riga’s 7th City Polyclinic.

He was awarded the medals “For Battle Merit”, “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”, “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR”, and “30 Years of Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”.

He married Silvia Ioelson (née Teitelbaum; 1914, Riga – 1973). Their daughter, Rozabella (b. 1946, Riga), later married and took the surname Lifshitz.

In 1978 Yefim Ioelson received permission to emigrate from Latvia.

Family:

Yakov Ioelson (1876, Jaunjelgava – 1924, Riga) – father
Roza Ioelson (1889, Belarus – 1918, Riga) – mother
Silvia Ioelson (née Teitelbaum; 1914, Riga – 1973) – wife
Rozabella Lifshitz (née Ioelson; 1946, Riga) – daughter
Lyubov Teitelbaum (née Dimanshtein; 1915, Riga) – aunt of his daughter