Kharmats Zelig (1911-1980)
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| Surname | Kharmats |
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| Name | Zelig |
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| Birth year | 1911 |
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| Birth place | Rēzekne |
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| Death year | 1980 |
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| Death place | Israel |
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| Sex | M |
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Kharmats (Harmatz) Zelig (Selig) (1911, Rēzekne, Vitebsk Province – 1980, Israel) - prisoner of Zion.
From his youth until the outbreak of the Second World War, Zelig Kharmats was a member of the Zionist organisation Betar and of the political party of the General Zionists. In 1947, he was arrested on charges of Zionist activity and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in a corrective labour camp. He was released in 1951 and emigrated to Israel in 1966.