Valdemārpils / Sassmacken
Born on 5 Tevet 5672 (26 December 1911) in Vuntspils. He studied under the city's rabbi, R. Efraim Samonov, and under R. Yisrael Moshe Kalab at the Talsi yeshiva. He also studied at the yeshivas of Riga and Telshe.
While still young he was accepted as rabbi in the city of Cēsis, and on 17 Adar I 5699 (18 February 1938) he was accepted as rabbi here in Valdemarfils.
He perished in the Holocaust.
Yahadut Latviya, p. 395. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 233.
Latvia and Rabbis