Hendel (Gendel) Khaim (Chaim)-Lev Isearovich (b. 1918, Dvinsk – now Daugavpils) – civil servant.

Khaim-Lev Hendel completed six years of primary school education. From 1933 to 1937, he worked in a private shoe component workshop owned by entrepreneur Gdud. Between 1937 and 1940, he was employed in a production workshop owned by private businessman Neighaus in Daugavpils, and until 1941 served as a tax inspector at the Daugavpils City Finance Department.

During World War II, Khaim-Lev Hendel served as a rifleman in the 122nd Rifle Regiment (August 1941 – December 1944), the 557th Rifle Regiment (December 1944 – February 1945), and the 149th Transit and Security Command (February 1945 – May 1946). He was demobilised in 1946 under the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (20 March 1946).

From 1946 to 1948, he worked as head of the shoe workshop for Latzhilkomstroy in Riga. From February 1948, he was employed as a procurement cutter for the Stalin's Five-Year Plan artel of the Latvian Industrial Council (renamed Shoe Factory No. 1 in July 1958), also in Riga.

In 1958, Khaim-Lev Hendel applied for permission to emigrate to the Polish People’s Republic.

On 23 August 1946, he married Dora Abramovna Hendel (née Glik). They had two children: Mark Khaimovich Hendel (b. 1955) and Karmela Khaimovna Hendel (b. 1958)

Family:

Father: Isear Izreylevich Hendel

Mother: Sonya Yoselevna Hendel (née Vainyunska)

Sisters:

Gita Isearovna Zakhodina (née Hendel)

Etta Isearovna Feldman (née Hendel)

Yokha Isearovna Blaer (née Hendel)

Bela Isearovna Okun, who resided in Poland

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