Levenberg Yesel Abramovich (1900)

Levenberg (Lewenberg) Yesel (Essel) Abramovich (22 January 1900, Liepāja) — labourer.

Yesel Levenderg was the son of Abram Yesel, Levenberg (1866, Libava — 1916) and Frida Abramovna, Levenberg (1870, Dorbyany, Lithuania — 1939, Dorbyany, Lithuania).

In 1916–22 he worked on the railway in Dorbyany, Lithuania.

In 1922–24 he served in the Lithuanian Army.

In 1924–25 he worked at a timber depot in Libava.

In 1925–41 he was a beer delivery worker at the Daugavpils brewery.

In 1941 he was evacuated to the Tatar ASSR. Until 1942 he worked in the Dmitriev collective farm in the Zainsk district. In 1942 he was mobilised into the Soviet Army.

After demobilisation, from 1945 he worked as a watchman and stoker for the Daugavpils Jewish community.

Married to Ita Abramovna Levenberg (Lyubovich) (1891, Daugavpils — 1963, Daugavpils).

His father was killed on the First World War front.

His brothers David Abramovich, Levenberg (1898, Libava — 1942, Utena, Lithuania) and Ruvim Abramovich, Levenberg (1920, Dorbyany, Lithuania — 1942, Utena, Lithuania) were killed in the Holocaust.

In 1964 he received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by his nephew Zusman Lyubovich, who had left Latvia for Palestine in 1932.

Family:

Ita Levenberg (Lyubovich) (1891, Daugavpils — 1963, Daugavpils) — wife
Abram Levenberg (1866, Libava — 1916) — father
Frida Levenberg (1870, Dorbyany, Lithuania — 1939, Dorbyany, Lithuania) — mother
David Levenberg (1898, Libava — 1942, Utena, Lithuania) — brother
Ruvim Levenberg (1920, Dorbyany, Lithuania — 1942, Utena, Lithuania) — brother
Zusman Lyubovich (…) — nephew