Kopilov Idel Movshevich (1902-1941)

Kopilov Idel Movshevich (30 June 1902, Preili – 1941) – educator.

Idel Kopilov received both religious and secular education. In 1922, he graduated from the State Jewish Gymnasium in Rēzekne and studied in Germany for a year. In 1924, he enrolled in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Latvia, but by the end of the 1930s, he had not passed his state exams or defended his thesis. He taught physics, mathematics, and cosmography at the Daugavpils City Jewish Gymnasium, and from 1 December 1929 to June 1940, with a few short breaks, he served as acting director of the school. His wife was teacher Lyubov Kopilova (née Feldman), and his daughter was Gita (born in 1930). He perished during the Holocaust.