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Kremer Eliyas Leibovich (1921)

Personal data
SurnameKremer
NameEliyas
PatronymLeibovich
Birth year1921
Birth month9
Birth day3
Birth placeRiga
SexM

Kremer Eliyas Leibovich (b. 3 September 1921, Riga – ?, ?) — merchandise expert, economic worker.

After graduating from the Riga Jewish Secondary School, Eliyas Kremer worked from 1937 to 1941 at the private enterprise of Yafe. In 1941 he was evacuated with his family to the Ivanovo Region. From 1942 to 1945 he worked as a fitter for the Uralstroyput Trust (Sverdlovsk).

From 1945 to 1951 he was a merchandise specialist at Rīgas Manufaktūra; in 1951–52 — a merchandise specialist at Parīzes Komūna; in 1952–55 — warehouse manager at the Krasnoarmeysky District Industrial Cooperative; in 1955–57 — warehouse manager at a mixed-industry combine; in 1957–59 — foreman at a toy factory; and in 1959–62 — foreman and master at the Ausma factory.

From 1962 to 1967 he was imprisoned; his conviction was expunged in 1969. From 1967 to 1968 he again worked as a press operator at the Ausma factory; from 1968 to 1971 — at the 1st of May factory; and from 1971 to 1975 — at the Siluets Production Association.

He was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labour during the Great Patriotic War.”

In 1951 he married Sonia Rakhmilyevna Kremer (née Gritun) (b. 1928, Daugavpils – ?, ?), an accountant who worked from 1962 to 1974 at the Somdaris factory and from 1974 to 1975 at Chemical and Pharmaceutical Plant No. 3.

Their children:

Lev Eliyasovich Kremer (b. 1953, Riga) — builder

Rashel Eliyasovna Kremer (b. 1958, Riga)

Father — Leib Zelikovich Kremer (1884, Riga – 1951, Riga)
Mother — Zura Davidovna Kremer

Sister — Mina Leibovna Zaltsberg (b. 1915, Riga – ?, ?) emigrated in 1956 first to Poland and later to Israel.

Brothers — Yakob Leibovich Kremer (b. 1913, Riga – ?, ?) — builder, wounded in the liberation of Riga; David Leibovich Kremer (1920, Riga – 1943, Smolensk) — killed in action.

In 1975, a request by Eliyas Leibovich Kremer to travel to Israel for 40 days was deemed “inexpedient” by the Deputy Chairman of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR.