Dimenshtein (Dimenstein) Yakov (Yankel) Leibovich (b. 1890, Vitebsk) – tailor.

No parental information is listed in the documents. Yakov Dimenshtein completed four years of schooling. He worked as a tailor in a private workshop in Vitebsk from 1906 to 1914, served in the army from 1914 to 1915, and resumed tailoring in private workshops in Vyatka (from 1934 known as Kirov) from 1915 to 1917. He worked at the Profintern factory in Vitebsk from 1917 to 1918, in a private workshop in Vilnius from 1918 to 1939, and at the “Banner of Industrialization” factory in Vitebsk from 1939 to 1941. He was evacuated to Turtkul in the Karakalpak ASSR, where he worked as a tailor for the district industrial complex (1942–1944), then served as a tailor and technical supervisor for the KEC of the Alma-Ata garrison, and as a tailor at the trade department of the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute (1944–1947). After moving to Riga, he worked as a vendor: at Buffet No. 2 (1948–1949), a Gortop kiosk (1950), and the “Dzimtēne” artel (1951); then at the “Bytovik” and “Raznoprom” artels (1951–1952).

In his marriage to Dimenshtein (Gelgor) Lea Aronovna (b. 1901), they had daughters: Gelgor (Dimenshtein) Shifra Yankelovna (b. 1923), Landsmanas (Dimenshtein) Chaya Yakovlevna (b. 1924), Gildenson (Dimenshtein) Lyubov Yakovlevna (Libba Yankelovna) (b. 1927), and son Dimenshtein Boris Yakovlevich (birth date not specified in the documents).

In 1958, Yakov Dimenshtein received permission to repatriate to Poland, where his son Boris had been living since 1957. Yakov later moved to Mexico.

Family:

Dimenshtein (Gelgor) Lea Aronovna (b. 1901) – wife
Gelgor (Dimenshtein) Shifra Yankelovna (b. 1923) – daughter
Landsmanas (Dimenshtein) Chaya Yakovlevna (b. 1924) – daughter
Gildenson (Dimenshtein) Lyubov Yakovlevna (Libba Yankelovna) (b. 1927) – daughter
Dimenshtein Boris Yakovlevich (birth date not specified) – son