Gasul Mordukh Leibovich (b. 1 April 1912, Riga) – tailor.
Mordukh Gasul was born into the family of Leiba Movshevich Gasul (b. 1878, Rezekne – murdered by the Nazis in 1944, Riga) and Menuha-Basya Yakovlevna Gasul (b. 1888, Riga – murdered by the Nazis in 1941).
He completed six years of education at Riga Jewish School No. 4 (1924), and worked as a tailor in the private workshop of Brozgalis (1930–1935). He served in the Latvian Army in 1935 (6th Riga Infantry Regiment) and then worked as a tailor in the private atelier of Reissner (1935–1940). From 1940 to 1941, he was employed as a tailor by the Military Trade Organisation (Voentorg). In 1941, he served in a Latvian Destruction Battalion in the Estonian SSR and was later treated in Narva. He then relocated to Ulyanovsk and subsequently to Nurlat in the Tatar ASSR. From October 1941 to 1945, he served in the Soviet Army.
After returning to Riga, Mordukh Gasul worked as a tailor at Voenflottorg (1945–1948), the Individual Tailoring Factory No. 1 (1948–1959), the Riga District Industrial Combine (1959–1960), and again at Factory No. 1, which was later renamed the production association Siluets (1960–1969). From 1969 to 1972, he worked as a tailor for the Department of Trade Services (ORS) of the Riga branch of the Baltic Railway.
He was married to Beylya Zelikovna Gasulis (née Gildenson, b. 1921, Riga). Their son, Lev Mordukhovich Gasulis, was born in 1946 in Riga.
In 1974, Mordukh Gasul received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his son had been living since 1973.
Family:
Leiba Movshevich Gasul (1878–1944) – father
Menuha-Basya Yakovlevna Gasul (1888–1941) – mother
Lyubov Leibovna Gasul (b. 1915, Riga – murdered by the Nazis in 1941, Riga) – sister
David Leibovich Gasul (b. 1917, Riga – murdered by the Nazis in a concentration camp in 1944, Germany) – brother
Dvoyra Leibovna Gasul (b. 1923, Riga – murdered by the Nazis in 1941, Riga) – sister
Beylya Zelikovna Gasulis (née Gildenson, b. 1921) – wife
Lev Mordukhovich Gasulis (b. 1946) – son
Yeita Borisovna Gimelfarb (née Fainveits, 1923, Daugavpils – 1972, Tel Aviv) – sister of his daughter-in-law’s mother, Pesia Borisovna Ber (née Fainveits, b. 1913)