Bliznyansky Motel Moiseevich (28.12.1920, Riga) - employee.

After graduating from primary schools in Riga, in 1934 Motel Bliznyansky worked as a salesman in various trading firms: ‘Simson and Lief’, “Herzfeld”, “Judelsohn”. In 1941 he completed 7 classes at the evening school for working youth. Participated in the activities of the underground organisation ‘Union of Working Youth of Latvia’, of which he was a member from 1936-40.

On 27.06.1941 Motel Bliznyansky was evacuated to Belaya Kholunitsa, Kirov region, where he worked at a factory. 01.11.1941 he was drafted into the Red Army in Slobodskoy, Kirov region. Due to health reasons in December 1941 he was discharged from the army and sent to Kirovo to factory No. 324, where he worked until 1946. Then he returned to Riga.

In 1947- 1972 Motel Bliznyansky worked at the following plants: ‘REZ’, ‘Gidrometpribor’, plant No. 85, turbomechanical plant, jewellery factory. Since 1970 he was retired.

In 1975 Motel Bliznyansky visited his mother in Israel. In 1987 he asked permission to go to West Berlin for three months to visit his brother, in 1989 asked permission to go with his son to Israel for two months.

Dismissed from military registration due to age. Rank - sailor. Motel Bliznyansky was awarded a medal ‘For Valorous Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945’.

In 1955 Motel Bliznyansky married Elena Nikolaevna Kondratyeva (1924, Leningrad region. - (?)) - typist. They had a son - Marik Motelevich Bliznyansky. In 1965 the marriage was dissolved.

Father - Moses Moiseyevich Bliznyansky (28.11.1889, Belorussia - 1951, Riga) - shoemaker. Mother - Liba Isakovna Bliznyanskaya (nee Kogan). Brother - Izaak Moiseyevich Bliznyansky.

Sisters: Maria Moiseyevna Zeligman and Ida Moiseyevna Sheinberger (nee Bliznyansky)(31.01.1925, Riga - (?)) . In 1943 Ida married a Polish citizen and in 1957 they went to Poland and then to Tel Aviv, where sheworked as a singer.