Kutzer (Kutser) Zeilik (Seilik) Naumovich
(22 June 1917, Tiraspol) — economist.
Zeilik Kutzer is the son of Naum Kutzer (1881, Tiraspol – 1942, Tashkent) and Menikha Kutzer (née Shaposhnikova) (1879, Tiraspol – 1945, Tashkent).
From 1933 to 1937, he worked as an accountant at the Moldsnabsbyt Administration. In 1936, he graduated from a workers’ faculty (rabfak). From 1937 to 1938, he was an accountant at the Commissariat of the Food Industry in Tiraspol. Between 1938 and 1940, he served as a junior commander in a military unit. In 1940–41, he worked as an accountant at a barrel-making factory in Tiraspol.
From 1941 to 1946, he served as assistant head of the finance and planning department in a military unit; from 1946 to 1949, he was head of the financial department of a battalion and regiment. From 1945 to 1951, he served in a Soviet Army unit stationed in Poland. Between 1949 and 1960, he was an officer and senior officer in the financial division of the Air Force.
From 1960 to 1970, he worked in Riga as chief of financial support and senior economist in military unit No. 13703. From 1973 to 1987, he was an engineer in the returnable-container and inspection department of the Latvtara enterprise, later senior engineer in the supply department. In 1988 he retired.
He was awarded the Orders of the Red Star and the Patriotic War (2nd Class), and two Medals “For Military Merit.”
Married to Viktoria Zeltzer (1919, Dubossary District, Moldova). Their daughters: Raisa Klevitskaya(née Kutzer) (1939, Dubossary District, Moldova) and Maria Ringo (née Kutzer) (1949, Kyiv).
In 1987, Zeilik Kutzer received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by his younger daughter.
Family:
Viktoria Zeltzer (1919, Dubossary District, Moldova) — wife
Raisa Klevitskaya (née Kutzer) (1939, Dubossary District, Moldova) — daughter
Maria Ringo (née Kutzer) (1949, Kyiv) — daughter
Naum Kutzer (1881, Tiraspol – 1942, Tashkent) — father
Menikha Kutzer (née Shaposhnikova) (1879, Tiraspol – 1945, Tashkent) — mother
Grigory Kutzer (1914, Tiraspol – 1941) — brother
Basya-Sheiva Kutzer (1910, Tiraspol) — sister
Anna Berenstein (née Kutzer) (1912, Tiraspol – 1955, Tashkent) — sister
Fanya Kutzer (1920, Tiraspol – 1951, Tashkent) — sister