Flakser Nakhum (Nachum) Israelovich (28 January 1922, Dvinsk, now Daugavpils) - X-ray technician.
Nakhum Flasker was born into a family of artisan bakers: Israel Abramovich Flakser (1885, Lithuania — 1941, murdered by the Nazis in the Dvinsk ghetto) and Leia Naumovna Flakser (1888, Kraslava — 1941, murdered by the Nazis in the Dvinsk ghetto). He completed the Dvinsk Jewish primary school No. 5 in 1934 and then the Dvinsk city gymnasium in 1939. In 1940 he entered the Teachers’ Institute in Rēzekne.
In 1941 he was evacuated to Jalal-Abad in the Kirghiz SSR, where he worked in a city hospital. He was then sent to X-ray technician courses in Frunze (now Bishkek), which he completed in 1942. During the war he worked as an electrician in evacuation hospital No. 3409 on the Northwestern Front, served as a telephone operator in the 375th Rifle Regiment of the 219th Division, and later as an X-ray technician in evacuation hospital No. 2686 (1942–1945). He was awarded the medal “For Combat Merit.”
After returning to Latvia, Nakhum Flasker worked as an X-ray technician in the sanatoriums “Saulstari” and “Malkalne” (1945–1948, Ogre), in the “Mežaparks” sanatorium (1948–1949, Riga), and in military hospital OVG 289 (1949–1960, Riga). From 1960 to 1971 he worked as an electromechanic at the “Medtekhnika” factory in Riga. In 1954 he completed, as an external student, the Kharkov X-ray Technical School.
He was married to Sarra Isakovna Flakser (née Nakhimovskaya) (1923, Dvinsk), with whom he had a son, Israel Nokhumovich Flakser (1948, Riga).
In 1971 Nakhum Flasker received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his sister Iona Israelevna Mitelman (née Flakser) (1921, Dvinsk) and his wife’s brothers Yakov Isakovich Nakhimovsky (born 1919), David Isakovich Nakhimovsky (born 1921), and Semyon Isakovich Nakhimovsky (born 1927) were already living.
Family:
Israel Abramovich Flakser (1885–1941) – father
Leia Naumovna Flakser (1888–1941) – mother
Iona Israelevna Mitelman (1921) – sister
Sarra Isakovna Flakser (1923) – wife
Israel Nokhumovich Flakser (1948) – son
Yakov Isakovich Nakhimovsky (1919) – brother-in-law
David Isakovich Nakhimovsky (1921) – brother-in-law
Semyon Isakovich Nakhimovsky (1927) – brother-in-law