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Landsberg Vulf Abramovich (1914-1938)

Личные данные
ФамилияLandsberg
ИмяVulf
ОтчествоAbramovich
Год рождения1914
Место рожденияLivenhof
Год смерти1938
Месяц смерти9
День смерти28
Место смертиSpain
ПолM

Landsberg Vulf (Wulf) (Velvke) Abramovich (1914, Livenhof, Vitebsk Province — 28 September 1938, Spain) — revolutionary activist, participant in the Spanish Civil War.

Vulf Landsberg was born into a large family. His father, Avraam-Itze (1876–1941), worked as a forest quality inspector and, believing that all his children had perished, took his own life when the German occupiers arrived in 1941. His mother, Basya, died in a fire before the war.

Vulf Landsberg completed six years of Jewish school and, at age fifteen, moved to Riga, where he worked for the firm “Elektra”, engaged in fur processing.

He maintained close contacts with Social Democrats and Communists, organizing demonstrations and rallies in Livany. For distributing leaflets, he was arrested, but released as a minor upon recommendation from MOPR (the International Red Aid organization).

Fearing further persecution, Landsberg fled first to Tallinn, and later traveled to Spain, where he died in battle near the Ebro River during the Spanish Civil War.

Source: Oral history materials.