Spungin Smuel Isaakovich (1922)

Spungin Smuel Isaakovich (5 September 1922, Tartu) — sheet-metal worker.

Smuel Spungin was born into the family of Isak Spungin (1876, Krustpils — 1955, Tartu) and Tsirl Spungin (1881, Valka — 1955, Tartu). Until 1941, he worked as a sheet-metal worker in a workshop owned by his father.

From 1941 to 1946, he served in the Soviet Army. After demobilisation, he returned to Tartu. In 1947, he worked as an instructor at the Tartu House of Culture.

From 1947 to 1951, he worked as a sheet-metal worker, shop manager, and head of a carpentry workshop at the Tartu District Industrial Combine. From 1951 to 1953, he was director of the Tartu House of Culture. From 1953 to 1954, he worked as a warehouse manager at an aluminium factory in Tartu.

From 1954 to 1958, he was a sheet-metal worker in the artel “Tartu Metall,” and from 1959 to 1968 a sheet-metal worker at industrial combines in Tartu.

In 1968, he was convicted under Article 86, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Estonian SSR and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment; he was released early in 1970. In 1970, he worked as a sheet-metal worker at a building materials plant in Tartu, and from the same year at Riga Repair and Construction Administration No. 1.

He was a member of the CPSU from 1948 to 1968. He was awarded two medals “For Courage,” as well as the medals “20 Years of Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR,” and “For Valour and Courage Shown in the Great Patriotic War.”

He married Mira Spungin (née Zigelbaum) (1917, Kraslava). Their children are Fanni Spungin (1951, Tartu) and Isak Spungin (1956, Tartu).

His brother Elias Spungin (1907, Tartu — 1941, Tartu) perished in the Holocaust. His brother Paul Spungin (1922, Tartu — 1945) was killed in action during the Great Patriotic War. His sister Simkha Zikherman (née Spungin) (1914, Tartu) lived and worked in Riga in the 1970s.

In 1972,Smuel Spungin received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of his cousin Boris Kopman (1939, Daugavpils).

Family:

Mira Spungin (née Zigelbaum) (1917, Kraslava) — wife
Fanni Spungin (1951, Tartu) — daughter
Isak Spungin (1956, Tartu) — son
Isak Spungin (1876, Krustpils — 1955, Tartu) — father
Tsirl Spungin (1881, Valka — 1955, Tartu) — mother
Elias Spungin (1907, Tartu — 1941, Tartu) — brother
Paul Spungin (1922, Tartu — 1945) — brother
Simkha Zikherman (née Spungin) (1914, Tartu) — sister
Boris Kopman (1939, Daugavpils) — cousin