Frish (Frisch) Otto Izrailevich (26 April 1907, Cēsis, then Wenden, Livland province — 1973, Riga) — pediatrician and educator.

His father, Israel (Isidor) Frish, was a dentist. Until 1919 Otto Frish lived in Cēsis and attended primary school there. From 1919 to 1921 he lived in exile in the United States, in Kansas City. In 1921 he returned to Cēsis, where he completed secondary school in 1926.

From 1926 to 1933 he studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the Latvian State University, graduating with a medical degree. From 1934 to 1935 he worked as a district physician in Liepāja district. In 1936 he undertook advanced training at the university clinic “Medical Center” in New York. From 20 October 1936 to 15 December 1939 he worked as a district physician in Madona district.

From 1940 to 1941 he served as an assistant physician at the Riga City Children’s Hospital. Simultaneously, he worked as director of the Riga House of Sanitary Education under the People’s Commissariat of Health of the Latvian SSR.

On 27 June 1941 he evacuated together with employees of the Latvian SSR Commissariat of Health to the Yaroslavl region, where he worked as a physician in a rural hospital until November 1941. He was later appointed head of the surgical department of a neurological and therapeutic hospital in Yaroslavl, serving there until April 1942.

In June 1942 he joined the Red Army and until the end of the war worked as head of the surgical department of an evacuation hospital, first in Yaroslavl and later in Riga. From October 1945 he headed the surgical office of the Special Polyclinic. Beginning in January 1946 he worked at the Riga City Children’s Clinical Hospital.

Otto Frish was the founder and director of the 3rd Riga Medical School, which trained nurses for pediatric clinics throughout Latvia. In 1970 he received the honorary title of Honored Educator of the Latvian SSR.

Family:

Israel (Isidor) Frish — father
Villi Frish — brother
Eduard Frish — son
Larisa Golender — daughter

Literature:

Jews-Medics of Latvia (Евреи-медики Латвии), edited by Eva Vater. Riga, 1997, p. 194.

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