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Brozgol Ida Leibovna (1903)

Personal data
SurnameBrozgol
NameIda
PatronymLeibovna
Birth year1903
SexF

Brozgol Ida Leibovna (1903 — exact date and place of birth and death unknown) — participant in the communist underground, prominent party figure.

Ida Brozgol was actively involved in underground revolutionary activities in Latvia, distributing illegal literature and serving as a propagandist.

A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) since 1921.

In 1924, she was arrested for her membership in the Communist Party and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, ultimately spending seven years in Riga Prison.

After her release, she was placed under police supervision in Rēzekne and was unable to find employment. With permission from the Central Committee of the Latvian Communist Party, she crossed the border into the Soviet Union.

In Moscow, she worked as head of the Party Office at the Higher Communist Agricultural School.

From 1934, she lived in Aktobe (Kazakhstan) where her husband was employed, although she worked only intermittently.

In 1938, Ida Brozgol was arrested and sentenced to eight years in correctional labour camps; her husband died the same year.

After her release, she worked in children's institutions in Magadan until 1956.

She was rehabilitated in 1955.

From 1957 onwards, she was a personal pensioner of republican significance.

Until the end of her life, she lived in Riga with her second husband, P.M. Brozgol, who was also a personal pensioner of republican significance.