R. Yisrael Alter son of R. Yehuda Hirsh Sporn Fuchs
Daugavpils / Dvinsk / Dinabug / Denenborg / Denabarg
Born on 17 Adar 5671 (17 March 1911) in Bolshevitz, a town in the district of Ternopil in Eastern Galicia.
He studied in Sosnowitz under R. Arye Tzvi Fromer, the rabbi of Kozieglowy. He was a student and close associate of the Gaon of Rogatchov, and arranged and published two volumes of his responsa Tsafnat Pa'aneach.
On 29 Kislev 5697 (13 December 1937) he was elected rabbi of the Hasidic congregation in Dvinsk.1)
He perished in the Holocaust on 18 Sivan 5702 (3 June 1942) in Breslov in White Russia (near Dvinsk), on the day of the liquidation of the ghetto there.2)
His biography was printed in several places.
HaRogatchover, chapter 15, pp. 279 ff. Ishim sheHikarti, pp. 319 ff. HaYnt Batag, 4 Tevet 5697. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 239, where it is noted he was officially approved by the authorities as rabbi of the synagogues on 2 Tammuz 5696 (22 July 1936). Amesh Shoah (Memorial Book for the community of Breslov in White Russia), p. 110.
Latvia and Rabbis