Klenitsky Iosif Israilevich (born 1897, Brest-Litovsk) — metalworker.
Iosif Klenitsky was the son of Israel Klenitsky (b. 1860, Brest-Litovsk) and Leah Klenitskaya (b. 1860, Brest-Litovsk – d. 1917, Warsaw).
From 1915 to 1916, he worked as a metalworker at the railway depot in Brest-Litovsk. In 1917–18, he worked as a metalworker in a private workshop in the town of Biała. From 1919 to 1920, he was the secretary of a trade union in Brest-Litovsk and a member of the Bolshevik Party (VKP(b)). From 1920 to 1921, he served in the Red Army.
Between 1922 and 1927, Klenitsky was a guard at the People’s Commissariat of Finance (Narkomfin) in Moscow. From 1929 to 1942, he worked as a mechanic in various Moscow enterprises: at the “VATO” plant (1929–30), the “Aviapribor” plant (1930–33), in the construction of the Moscow Metro (1933–35), at the “Sakhneft” plant on Sakhalin (1935–36), at the “Intom” factory (1936–40), and at the Institute of Weights and Measures (1940–42).
In 1942, he was mobilized into the Labor Army and worked until 1945 at Military Plant No. 112 in Gorky. In 1945–46, he worked as a fitter in Construction and Installation Department No. 2 of the Ministry of Tank Industry in Moscow.
In 1946, Klenitsky moved to Riga, where he worked at the Riga Carriage-Building Plant until 1947. From 1947 to 1949, he was employed at the Representation of the Ministry of Heavy Industry; from 1949 to 1951, he was a procurement agent and warehouse manager at “Riga Util’syre.” From 1952 to 1958, he worked as a mechanic at the artels “Dzintari” and “Jaunais Komunārs” in Riga. From 1958, he was a pensioner.
Between 1937 and 1939, Klenitsky was under investigation under Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, which he believed was due to his correspondence with his father, who lived in Warsaw.
In a civil marriage with Maria Rivlina (b. 1901, Belarus), he had two children: Tamara Klenitskaya (b. 1926, Moscow) and Alexander Klenitsky (b. 1931, Moscow). His subsequent marriage to Frida Zand (b. 1898, Ventspils) was dissolved in 1966.
Klenitsky’s brother Ezra (b. 1899, Brest-Litovsk – d. 1920) was killed in the Civil War while serving in the Red Army. His sister Esther Benyamin (née Klenitskaya) (b. 1901, Brest-Litovsk – d. 1949, Palestine) emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s.
In 1971, Klenitsky received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by his niece Leah Divan (née Benyamin) (b. 1942, Israel) and nephew Aviezer Benyamin (b. 1944, Israel).
Family:
Maria Rivlina (b. 1901, Belarus) — common-law wife
Tamara Klenitskaya (b. 1926, Moscow) — daughter
Alexander Klenitsky (b. 1931, Moscow) — son
Frida Zand (b. 1898, Ventspils) — wife
Israel Klenitsky (b. 1860, Brest-Litovsk) — father
Leah Klenitskaya (b. 1860, Brest-Litovsk – d. 1917, Warsaw) — mother
Chaya Klenitskaya (b. 1895, Brest-Litovsk) — sister
Ezra Klenitsky (b. 1899, Brest-Litovsk – d. 1920) — brother
Esther Benyamin (née Klenitskaya) (b. 1901, Brest-Litovsk – d. 1949, Palestine) — sister
Leah Divan (née Benyamin) (b. 1942, Israel) — niece
Aviezer Benyamin (b. 1944, Israel) — nephew