Kvits (Kvitz) Mendel Ioselevich
(b. 26 December 1910, Žagarė) — trade worker.
In 1923 Mendel Kvits completed four classes of elementary school. Served in the Lithuanian Army (1932–34). From 1934 to 1941 worked as a bus conductor in Žagarė. In 1941 was evacuated to the village of Medvedevo, Kirov region, where he worked in a local kolkhoz. From 1942 to 1945 worked at a military plant in Novosibirsk; in 1945–46, a worker at the Dorurs base in Kansk; in 1946, an expediter for the Special Trade Department in Kaunas. From 1946 to 1949 worked as an expediter in the expedition of the Republican Office of Glavtabak in Lithuania; from 1949 to 1952 was head of a shop branch in Kaunas.
In 1952 he moved to Riga, where until 1955 he worked as manager of a kiosk in the Galalit artel. From 1955 to 1961 was manager of a kiosk in Riga’s 2nd City Trade Cooperative (Gorpromtorg). From 1961 to 1966 was head of departments in shops of the Riga Textile, Clothing, and Footwear Trade Association (Tekstilshveiobu’vtorg).
He was married to Chaya Kvits (née Meller) (b. 1920, Poltava); they had a daughter, Lyubov Kvits, who was born in 1953 in Riga.
Father: Iosel Kvits (b. 1875, Žagarė – d. 1919, Šiauliai), killed by White Guards during the Civil War. Mother: Nekhama Kvits (b. 1888, Lithuania – d. 1941, Riga), perished in the Holocaust. Brother: Abram Kvits (b. 1905, Žagarė – d. …, Lithuania). Sisters: Sulamit Kvits (b. 1918, Poltava province – d. 1941, Lithuania), killed in the Holocaust; Minna Zlot (née Kvits) (b. 1907, Žagarė); Ginda Abragim (née Kvits) (b. 1908, Žagarė); Shoshana Pozen (née Kvits) (b. 1912, Žagarė) — the last three were living in Israel in the 1960s.
In 1963 Mendel Kvits submitted his first application for emigration to Israel, which was granted in 1966.
Family:
Chaya Kvits (née Meller) (b. 1920, Poltava) — wife
Lyubov Kvits (b. 1953, Riga) — daughter
Iosel Kvits (1875, Žagarė – 1919, Šiauliai) — father
Nekhama Kvits (1888, Lithuania – 1941, Riga) — mother
Abram Kvits (b. 1905, Žagarė – d. …, Lithuania) — brother
Minna Zlot (née Kvits) (b. 1907, Žagarė) — sister
Ginda Abragim (née Kvits) (b. 1908, Žagarė) — sister
Shoshana Pozen (née Kvits) (b. 1912, Žagarė) — sister
Sulamit Kvits (1918, Poltava province – 1941, Lithuania) — sister