R. Aharon Shekhna son of R. Shlomo Yehuda Leib Platzinsky

Malta / Silmala

He served as rabbi of Malta and of the nearby Antonopol (see there).1)

From 5700 he filled his father-in-law's place in the rabbinate of Viļāni, where he perished in the Holocaust with the members of his community in the summer of 5701 (1941).

Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 127.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
In the year 1936 the two towns were merged.