| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Smushkevich |
| Name | Gesel |
| Patronym | Kalmanovich |
| Birth year | 1930 |
| Birth month | 3 |
| Birth day | 27 |
| Birth place | Daugavpils |
| Sex | M |
Smushkevich (Smuschkewitsch) Gesel (Hessel) Kalmanovich (27 March 1930, Daugavpils) — mechanical engineer.
During the war, Gesel Smushkevich was in evacuation in Novosibirsk. In September 1945, he returned to Daugavpils, where he continued his studies at a secondary school. In 1948, he moved to Riga and in 1949 graduated from secondary school.
From 1949 to 1950, he was a student at Leningrad Institute of Railroad Engineers (LIIZhT) in Leningrad. In 1950, he entered the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute; in 1951, he transferred to the second year of Leningrad State University, Faculty of Mechanics, from which he graduated in 1957.
In 1952, 1953, and 1954, he worked seasonally at the pioneer camp “Tekstilshchik” in Jūrmala (leader of the photography club). In 1954, he worked as an engineering technician at the VEF plant; from September 1955 to August 1956 as a design technician at Auto Repair Plant No. 1; from 1957 to 1958 as a process engineer at the “Latvenergo” plant; from 1958 to 1967 as a design engineer at the RAF plant in Riga; in 1968 as a driver in a taxi fleet; and in 1969 he worked in the Riga Hotels Trust.
In 1970, Gesel Smushkevich applied for permission to emigrate to Israel for permanent residence. Liable for military service, private rank.
In October 1955, he married Lyubov Kalmanovna Smushkevich (née Feigelson). Their son is Yakov Geselevich Smushkevich (15 September 1956, Riga — ?).
Gesel Smushkevich was born into the family of Kalman Saevich Smushkevich (1893, Grīva — September 1945, Daugavpils), a tailor who worked in Shur’s workshop. In 1941, he failed to evacuate and remained in Daugavpils. He was interned in the ghetto, then deported to a concentration camp in Germany, where he miraculously survived and returned to Daugavpils in 1945, and Khaya Iosifovna Smushkevich (née Ellern).
His brother was Sholom Kalmanovich Smushkevich (1919, Kazan — ?), who served a sentence in Olaine (OC-78-10 for theft), and later worked in Auce at a knitted goods factory.
His sisters were Frida Kalmanovna Goldfarb (1921, Daugavpils — ?), who in 1957 left Riga with her husband (a Polish citizen) for Poland, and later moved to Tel Aviv, where she worked as a hairdresser and her husband as a watchmaker; and Leya Kalmanovna Dregis (1935, Daugavpils — ?), a sewing-machine operator at the factory “Elektra,” whose husband was a painter.