Krup Binyamin (1901-1980)

Krup Binyamin (Binjamin) Yakov (Jakov) Krup (b. 28 August 1901, Ludza – d. 5 May 1980, Riga) — lawyer.

Binyamin Krup was born in Ludza to a small trader’s family. His father was Shmuel Krup, and his mother Eiga Krup. He studied at the Ludza Elementary School from 1910 to 1912 and at the Higher Elementary School from 1913. In 1917, he entered the Ludza Gymnasium, and in 1921 graduated from the Ludza City Russian Secondary School.

In 1921, Krup began studying law at the University of Latvia, graduating in 1928. From 1923, he worked as a teacher at the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Art and Knowledge. On 17 October 1928, he became an assistant to attorney D. Hibshman in Daugavpils. Until 1933, he was active in the Daugavpils branch of the Youth National Society for Culture and Sport, serving as a board member. On 11 March 1936, he was admitted as a sworn advocate in Daugavpils.

During the Soviet occupation, beginning on 4 April 1941, he worked as a lawyer at the Daugavpils Legal Consultation Office. In June 1941, he was evacuated to Kazakhstan. From September 1941, he worked as a laborer at the “Oktyabr” collective farm in the Karaganda region. From December 1942, he taught history and Russian at a secondary school in the Alma-Ata region, and from January to June 1945, he was a teacher at a secondary school in Alma-Ata.

In August 1945, Krup returned to Latvia and worked as a lawyer at the Daugavpils Legal Consultation Office; from May 1948, he was employed at the Rēzekne Legal Consultation Office. In December 1948, he was expelled from the Latvian Bar Association by order of the Minister of Justice. From 1949, he worked as a legal consultant at the Liepāja District Consumer Union, and from 1950, at the Liepāja Department of Trade. From September to December 1953, he taught at the Liepāja Secondary School No. 4.

In 1952, Krup graduated from the Evening University of Marxism and Leninism of the Liepāja City Committee of the Latvian Communist Party and taught the basics of law at accounting courses in Liepāja and Ventspils. Between 1952 and 1954, he was a legal consultant and later an accountant at the Liepāja Personnel Training Administration. From 1949 to 1956, he also taught at the Liepāja Vocational Training Center, and from 1955, served as a senior lecturer at the Ventspils Vocational Training Center.

In May 1956, Krup was reinstated in the Bar Association and became head of the Livani Legal Consultation Office, then, from September 1956, head of the Ludza Legal Consultation Office. From May 1957, he worked as a lawyer at the Liepāja Legal Consultation Office. He retired in 1963.

After retirement, Krup lectured at the People’s University and at various enterprises. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Comrades’ Court of the Liepāja 8th Housing Administration.

Binyamin Krup died on 5 May 1980 in Riga.

Family:

Khaya Minna Drue (b. 1902) — wife
Dina Eigi Krup (b. 1932) — daughter
Aron Krup (b. 1937) — son
Shmuel Krup — father
Eiga Krup — mother