Klemptner Nikolai Arnoldovich (born May 28, 1903, Riga) — radio technician.
In 1924, Nikolai Kleptner graduated from secondary school in Riga. From 1924 to 1929, he worked as an accountant and assistant bookkeeper at a private Latvian bank. From 1930 to 1940, he was a radio repair technician in private workshops in Riga. From 1940 to 1941, he served as an instructor of a radio hobby group at the Riga Palace of Pioneers.
In 1941, together with his daughter, he was evacuated to the Soviet rear. From 1941 to 1943, he was a technical supervisor at a vocational training school (FZO) in the village of Vyatskiye Polyany, Kirov Region. From 1944 to 1945, he served in the Soviet Army. From 1945 to 1954, he worked as a radio technician in State Workshop No. 1 of the ORS NOD-1 of the Baltic Railway. From 1967 to 1971, he was a senior laboratory assistant, senior mechanic, senior technician, and training master at the Riga Polytechnic Institute.
In 1971, he worked as a transport worker in the Production and Technological Supply Department of the Riga Prefabricated Housing Trust. From 1972 to 1975, he was a night watchman, and from 1975 to 1978, a duty cleaner at the Lokomotiv Sports House in Riga. Since 1978, he had been a pensioner.
He was awarded the medal “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.”
His first wife, Frida Klemptner (née Kaplan) (1907, Riga – 1941, Riga), perished in the Holocaust. From this marriage, he had a daughter, Regina Shabashova (née Klemptner) (1936, Riga).
In his second marriage, to Alisa Klemptner (née Minsker, formerly Abramson) (1909, Riga), were born sons Vladimir Klemptner (1947, Riga) and Alexander Klemptner (1948, Riga).
His father, Arnold Klemptner (1872, Tukums – 1939, Riga), died shortly before the war. His mother and sister, Mollie Klemptner (née Martinson) (1874, Riga – 1941, Riga) and Harriet Mamchelovich (née Klemptner) (1901, Riga – 1941, Riga), perished in the Holocaust. His brother, Vladimir Klemptner (1908, Riga – 1976, Riga), was buried in Riga.
In 1979, Nikolai Klemptner received permission to emigrate to Israel.
Family:
Frida Klemptner (née Kaplan) (1907, Riga – 1941, Riga) — first wife
Regina Shabashova (née Klemptner) (1936, Riga) — daughter
Alisa Klemptner (née Minsker, formerly Abramson) (1909, Riga) — second wife
Vladimir Klemptner (1947, Riga) — son
Alexander Klemptner (1948, Riga) — son
Arnold Klemptner (1872, Tukums – 1939, Riga) — father
Mollie Klemptner (née Martinson) (1874, Riga – 1941, Riga) — mother
Vladimir Klemptner (1908, Riga – 1976, Riga) — brother
Harriet Mamchelovich (née Klemptner) (1901, Riga – 1941, Riga) — sister
Anna Hadani (née Minsker) (1913, Krustpils) — wife’s cousin