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Ginzburg Israil-Elya Bentsionovich (1885-1941)

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SurnameGinzburg
NameIsrail-Elya
PatronymBentsionovich
Birth year1885
Birth month3
Birth day17
Birth placeKrāslava
Death year1941
SexM

Ginzburg (Ginsburg) Israil-Elya Bentsionovich (17 March 1885, Krāslava – before 5 December 1941) – educator.

Israil-Elya Ginzburg was born into a petty-bourgeois family. In 1910, he graduated from the Vvedensky Gymnasium in St Petersburg. From 1912 to 1917, he attended lectures at the Psychoneurological Institute in St Petersburg. In 1921, he completed the State Summer Pedagogical Courses.

He taught geography in Daugavpils from 1919 onwards, initially at the People’s School of Dr E.V. Chlenov, then at the 2nd Municipal Jewish Primary School and the Municipal Jewish Secondary School. In 1935, according to the Ministry of Education's Teachers' Certification Commission, he received credentials as a fully qualified secondary school teacher.

In 1941, Israil-Elya Ginzburg was interned in the Daugavpils Ghetto.