Tager Osip Grigorievich (1911)

Tager Osip Grigorievich (27 January 1911, Rezekne) — manager.

In 1928–1931, Osip Tager worked as a glazier in Ioselovich’s workshop in Rezekne. From 1931 to 1940, he worked as a salesman in a shop owned by his father in the town of Mežvidi, Rezekne district.

From 1940 to 1941, he worked as a supply agent in the Administration of Military Construction Works No. 189 in Riga. When the Nazi Germany invaded, the construction unit where he worked was evacuated to Pskov and soon disbanded. He moved to Stalinabad, where during the war his sister Frida Kafyan (née Tager) (1915) lived, and from 1941 to 1942 he was head of a shop of the Administration of Military Construction Works No. 369 in Leninabad.

In 1942, he was mobilized and worked as head of forage supply of Hospital No. 103 on the Central Front (1943–1944) and Hospital No. 0305 on the 1st Belorussian Front (1944–1945).

From 1945 to 1947, he worked as head of food supply of Hospital No. 1915 of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany.

From 1947 to 1954, he worked as warehouse manager and head of the packing department at the factory “Krasny Kvadrat” in Riga. From 1955 to 1963, he managed Shop No. 49 of the 1st Riga State Trade organization. From 1963 to 1972, he headed commission shops of the Riga city trade system. From 1973, he was a pensioner.

In 1961, he completed (by correspondence) the Riga Technical School of Soviet Trade.

Osip Tager was awarded the medals “For Combat Merit,” “For the Victory over Germany,” “20 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR,” “In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin,” and “25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.”

His mother, Mina Tager (1896–1941), and his sister Khasya Tager (1928–1941), were shot in 1941 in Rezekne. His brother Shaul-Natan Tager (1920) was imprisoned in German concentration camps and, after liberation in 1945, left for the territory of the present-day State of Israel; in the 1970s he owned a shop in Israel.

In 1973, Osip Tager emigrated from Latvia with his family.

Family:

Sima Tager (née Rusonik) (1917) — wife
Frida Kafyan (née Tager) (1915) — sister
Shaul-Natan Tager (1920) — brother
Khasya Tager (1928–1941) — sister
Sofia Yankovich (née Tager) (1917) — sister
Berta Butina (née Tager) (1948) — daughter
Raisa Tager (1952) — daughter
Grigory Tager (1882–1937) — father
Mina Tager (1896–1941) — mother