Shneyder Rafael Pinkhusovich (1913)

Shneyder Rafael Pinkhusovich (26.10.1913, Rēzekne) – joiner. He completed the Riga Jewish Trade School in 1933. Until 1941 he worked as a joiner at the Leibovich firm in Riga. In 1941 he was evacuated and conscripted into the Labor Army (Kalinneft oilfield, Uzbek SSR). From 1945 to 1963 he worked as a joiner at the Military Trade Office in Riga. From 1964 to 1972 – joiner at the self-financing repair section of the Catering Trust of the Moscow District of the Latvian SSR.

Sh.'s father, a native of Rēzekne, Shneyder Pinkhus (1875 – 1916), was killed in the First World War. Sh.'s mother, Shneyder Sore (1881 – 1942), died in evacuation in Kokand. Sh.'s brother and sister, Shneyder Meylakh (1909 – 1941) and Shneyder Khana (1911 – 1940s), were killed during the occupation of Latvia.

In 1972 Sh. received permission to leave for Israel to join Sh.'s cousin, Eliezer Israeli (1915), who had left Rēzekne in the 1930s in search of work and by the 1970s was living and working in Israel.

A. Norman

Shneyder (née Musin) Keyle (1920) – wife
Shneyder Pinkhus (1875 – 1916) – father
Shneyder Sore (1881 – 1942) – mother
Shneyder Meylakh (1909 – 1941) – brother
Shneyder Khana (1911 – 1940s) – sister
Svirskaya (née Shneyder) Meri (1915) – sister
Shneyder Pinkhus (1941) – son
Volkova (née Shneyder) Sofa (1944) – daughter
Shneyder Raisa (1952) – daughter
Eliezer Israeli (1915) – cousin