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SurnameKhozias
NameBeola
PatronymYankelevna
Birth year1940
Birth month1
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Drits Meir Boruchovich (1920)

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SurnameDrits
NameMeir
PatronymBoruchovich
Birth year1920
Birth month4
Birth day27
birth_placeDaugavpils

Drits(Dritz) Meir Boruchovich (27 April 1920, Daugavpils – ?, ?) – photographer.

In 1934, Meir Drits graduated from 6th grade of elementary school in Daugavpils. From 1934 to 1941, he was an apprentice and then a photographer in Zeidman's studio (Daugavpils). From 1941 to 1945, he was evacuated and worked as a photographer in the Krasnaya Zarya artel (Chardzhou, Turkmen SSR). In 1945–46, he was a photo lab assistant at the House of Culture in Ogre, in 1947–48, he was a photographer at the Elgava Prokombinat, and in 1949–50, he was a photographer at the Rīgas foto artel. In 1953–55, he was a master tailor at the Riga District Industrial Combine, in 1956–62, he was a master of the mass tailoring workshop at the Voentorg Combine, in 1963, he was a storekeeper at the Voentorg canteen No. 13, and in 1963, he was a driver at the Riga Sea Fishing Port.

In 1945, he married Tamara Yankelevna Weinstein. A daughter was born in the marrige.

Tamara Yankelevna Weinstein - wife

Bella Meyerovna Drits - daughter

Boruch Meyerovich Drits (1889, Daugavpils — 1956, Riga) — father, a tailor.

Khase Khaymovna Drits (1897, Daugavpils – 1941, Riga) - mother.

Ruben Borukhovich Drits - brother.

Tsila Borukhovna Drits (b. 1925, Daugavpils) - sister.