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SurnameVald
NameGrigory
PatronymBorisovich
Birth year1938
Birth month3
Birth day18
birth_placeKharkiv, Ukraine

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Izraelit Mark Solomonovich (1928)

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SurnameIzraelit
NameMark
PatronymSolomonovich
Birth year1928
Birth month2
Birth day29
birth_placeKlaipėda

Izraelit (Israelit) Mark Solomonovich (29 February 1928, Klaipėda) — teacher.

In early 1939, when Klaipėda was occupied by the Germans, Izraelit and his family moved to Šiauliai, Kaunas, and later to Riga. During the war years, he was evacuated to Novosibirsk and Asino in Tomsk Oblast. He completed secondary school in Tomsk. Upon returning to Riga, in 1947 he entered the university and in 1952 graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Latvian State University.

From 1952 to 1953, under state assignment, he worked as an engineer at the Ryazan Electric Lamp Factory. From 1954 to 1961, he taught at Riga Secondary School No. 14 for Working Youth; from 1961 to 1971, he was a lecturer at the Riga Teaching and Consultation Centre of the Moscow Printing Institute. Held the rank of Junior Lieutenant in the reserve, 1st category.

His sister, Miriam Boskovich (née Izraelit) (b. 1924), left Lithuania for Palestine in 1939. In 1956, at the invitation of their daughter, Izraelit’s parents, Solomon Izraelit (1884–1964) and Esther Izraelit (née Shereshevskaya) (b. 1901), moved to Tel Aviv.

Milya Izraelit (née Modylevskaya) (b. 1933) — wife
Diana Izraelit (b. 1957) — daughter
Solomon Izraelit (b. 1965) — son
Solomon Izraelit (1884–1964) — father
Esther Izraelit (née Shereshevskaya) (b. 1901) — mother
Miriam Boskovich (née Izraelit) (b. 1924) — sister