R. Eliezer son of R. Baruch Golovchin
Silene / Boruvka
Born on 4 Tishrei 5668 (12 September 1907) in Liepāja.
He studied at the Beit Yosef yeshiva in Dvinsk. Son-in-law of R. Meir Ababovitz, rabbi of Novhardok and author of the books Pnei Meir and Zikaron Yeshayahu. He served as secretary to the man of kindness, R. Mordechai Dubin.
On 3 Menachem Av 5697 (11 July 1937) he was accepted here as rabbi.
He perished of starvation in the Magdeburg concentration camp in Germany in the month of Adar 5705 (March 1945), close to the end of the war, while taking care not to defile himself with non-kosher food.
He is mentioned in Igrot Kodesh of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Mohariatz).1)
Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 228. Yahadut Latviya, p. 379. Jerusalem Talmud, tractate Shabbat with the commentary Pnei Meir, in the introduction (published by R.Sh. Vasserman).
Latvia and Rabbis