Lyak Khaim Alterovich (1911)

Lyak Khaim (Chaim) Alterovich (born 24 August 1911, Preiļi — ?, ?) — administrative and economic worker.

In 1925 he completed the seven-year school in Preiļi. From 1940 to 1941 he worked as a senior inspector of Gosstrakh insurance company in the Kapini and Aglona rural districts. In 1941–1942 he served in the Red Army. From 1942 to 1944 he worked as a technician–norm setter and tractor driver at a Machine and Tractor Station (MTS) in Kemerovo Region. In 1944–1946 he was senior inspector of Gosstrakh of Daugavpils County. From 1946 to 1961 he worked in the Daugavpils District as head of the trade department, shop manager, agricultural produce procurement agent, and director of the district department store of the District Consumers’ Union (including “Latrybolvpoterbsouz”, “Rybkoop”, and “Gorkooptorg”).

In 1962 he worked as a freelance insurance agent for Gosstrakh (Daugavpils). From 1962 to 1964 he served a sentence under a verdict of the People’s Court of Daugavpils; he was released on parole, and his conviction was subsequently expunged by decision of the same court. In 1964 he worked as a postman–motorcyclist in the mail exchange, sorting and transport section of the Daugavpils District Communications Centre. In 1965 he was a fitter with a mobile mechanical column of the Daugavpils General Construction Trust. From 1965 to 1971 he worked as a technician, senior technician, and head of the supply department at the Daugavpils Motor Transport Combine of the “Stroymekhanizatsiya” Trust. From 1971 to 1975 he served as head of the supply department and master at the Daugavpils Motor Transport Enterprise of the “Latavtostroytrans” Trust, and in 1975–1976 as a production master at the same trust. In 1976 he worked as a site supervisor in the motor transport department of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR for Television and Radio Broadcasting, and from 1977 to 1979 as site supervisor and senior master of the motor transport workshop of the Latvian Radio and Television Centre.

Since 1945 he was married to Zelda Uryevna Lyak. Their children are Uriy Chaimovich Lyak (son) and Polina Chaimovna Zhukovskaya (daughter; born 1954, Daugavpils), who in 1979 emigrated to Israel (Jerusalem) together with her husband Yasha Zhukovsky (born 1953, Daugavpils) and their daughter Diana Zhukovskaya (born 3 December 1977, Riga).

His parents Alter Leizerovich Lyak (1876, Preiļi — 1941, Aglona rural district) and Pesya Mendelevna Lyak (née Khantverger) (1876, Preiļi — 1941, Aglona rural district) were murdered in the Holocaust. His sisters—Sonya Alterovna Lyak (1901, Preiļi — 1941, Aglona rural district), Yudisa Alterovna Lyak (1903, Preiļi — 1941, Aglona rural district), Tabe Alterovna Lyak (1908, Preiļi — 1941, Aglona rural district), and Minukha Alterovna Lyak (1911, Preiļi — 1941, Aglona rural district)—all perished in the Holocaust.

Khaim Alterovich Lyak emigrated to Israel in 1980.