Adler (Fogel) Leah Nikolaevna (26 January 1919, Liepāja) – Saleswoman

From 1934 to 1940, Leah Adler worked as a sales assistant at the Hozijas Maju company store in Liepaja. From 1940 to 1941, she was employed as a sales assistant at a store run by the Liepaja City Industrial and Trade Bureau.

In 1941, Leah Adler and her family were imprisoned in the Liepāja Ghetto. Her parents, brothers, and sister—Nikolai Fogel (1883–1941), Basya Fogel (1885–1941), Mordukh Fogel (1903–1941), Gerda Jakobson (née Fogel) (1907–1941), and Leopold Fogel (1910–1941)—were executed in the Liepaja Ghetto in 1941.

In 1943, Leah Adler was transferred to the Mezaparks concentration camp in Riga and, in 1944, was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp in Germany. (In 1980, after Leah Adler had already left Riga, the Latvian Ministry of Internal Affairs received a request from a West German court for her to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany to testify in a criminal case against a Nazi war criminal.)

After returning to Riga, Leah Adler did not work until 1965. From 1965 to 1974, she was employed as a junior sales assistant at a store in the Textile, Sewing, and Footwear Trade network. In 1974, she left Latvia.

Family:

Isaac Adler (1913–1973) – husband
Boris Adler (born 1951) – son
Uri Adler (born 1946) – son
Nikolai Fogel (1883–1941) – father
Basya Fogel (1885–1941) – mother
Mordukh Fogel (1903–1941) – brother
Gerda Jakobson (née Fogel) (1907–1941) – sister
Leopold Fogel (1910–1941) – brother