Lat Elia Gedalievich (14 November 1918, Riga) – textile worker.

Elia Lat was born into the family of Gedalia Elievich Lat (1880, Riga – killed by the Nazis in 1944 in the Stutthof concentration camp, Germany) and Pese Lat (1885, Shadrinsk – killed by the Nazis in the Riga ghetto in 1941). He graduated from 8th grade secondary school (1933), worked as an apprentice in the ‘Weinerman and Kremer’ manufacturing shop (1933-1934), was a cotton worker at the ‘Monna’ hosiery factory (1934-1937), at the Gabek hosiery factory (1937-1939), served in the Latvian army (1940), worked as a cotton worker at the Gabek hosiery factory (1940-1941), was evacuated to Jalal-Abad in the Kyrgyz SSR (1941), from where he moved to Pavlov in the Gorky Region (1942). He fell ill with tuberculosis and was unable to work (1942-1943), but after recovering, he worked as an accountant at the Ati factory (1943-1944). Returning to Riga, he worked as the manager of hosiery factory No. 1 of the Industrial Complex of the Stalin District of Riga (1945-1946), was the head of the workshop, cutter, foreman and head of the workshop of Industrial Complex No. 2 of the Kirov District of Riga (1947-1955), worked as a workshop manager and foreman at the Riga City Executive Committee textile factory (1955-1959), and was a foreman and senior foreman at the Sadarbss silk weaving factory (1959-1960), worked as assistant foreman at the Tekstilniece factory (1961-1962), assistant foreman at the weaving and haberdashery production section of the Riga Industrial Combine (1962-1963), and the Saules textile factory (1963), and was a foreman, master craftsman, and inspector at the mobile salon of the Riga District Consumer Services Combine (1963-1971).

He married Tatyana Nikolaevna Lat (Muravskaya) (1925, Riga) and had a son, Gedalya Elievich Lat (1950, Riga).

In 1971, he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his cousins lived: since 1934 – Paul Solomonovich Lat, Abram Solomonovich Lat, since 1935 Barzilai Shmuel Isaakovich, and his cousin Sonya Moiseevna Lat.

Family:

Gedalya Elievich Lat (1880-1944) – father
Pese Lat (1885-1941) – mother
Mikhail Gedalievich Lat (1905 – killed by the Nazis in the Riga ghetto in 1942) – brother
Girsh Gedalievich Lat (1908, Riga – killed by the Nazis in the Stutthof concentration camp, Germany, in 1944) – brother
Abram Gedalievich Lat (1912, Riga) – brother
Kha Gedalievich Kirshbaum (Lat) (1910 – killed by the Nazis in the Riga ghetto in 1941) – sister
Tatyana Nikolaevich Lat (Muravskaya) (1925) – wife
Gedalya Elievich Lat (1950) – son
Paul Solomonovich Lat – cousin
Abram Solomonovich Lat – cousin
Shmuel Isakovich Barzilai – cousin
Sonya Moiseevna Lat – cousin

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