Levenberg (Lewenberg) Zallis (Sallis) Nechemiah (1903–1942)

Zallis Levenberg was born on 22 March 1903 in Riga, into the family of a physician and property owner. Father — Vulf Wilhelm, mother — Gita (née Seba). From 1910 he attended the Riga Nikolaev Gymnasium; from 1915, during evacuation in Moscow, he studied at the 6th State Gymnasium in Warsaw.

After graduating from the Riga Municipal Russian Gymnasium in 1920, he began studying law at the University of Latvia, completing his degree in 1924. In 1923–24 he simultaneously worked as secretary to the sworn advocate V. Tumansky. From 10 September 1924 he served as assistant to the sworn advocate Ya. Shablovsky in Riga; from 17 September 1930 assistant to the sworn advocate E. Knop in Riga; from 6 September 1933 assistant to the sworn advocate V. Tumansky in Riga. On 12 April 1935 he was removed from the list of assistants to sworn advocates. He was a contributor to the journal For You. Until the end of 1939 he worked as a translator for sports publications, was a board member of the sports society Hakoah, and a football coach in the Jewish national organisation Trumpeldor. He took part in the leadership of the Latvian Table Tennis Union and in the Latvian Russian Legal Society. He wrote extensively on football topics in sports publications.

During the Soviet occupation he worked in the Directorate for Artistic Affairs and in the People’s Commissariat for Supplies. On 14 June 1941 he was detained in Jurmala (Riga) and deported to the Solikamsk concentration camp, where he died on 27 January 1942 before being brought to trial.

He married Flora (born 14 January 1900). Their children: sons Alexander (born 1925), Gerald (born 1931), Vladimir Eduard (born 1938), and daughter Irina (1940 – 11 November 1942). The entire family, except for Gerald, was exiled to Krasnoyarsk Krai from 1941. Alexander was mobilised into the Red Army in 1944. Flora and Vladimir Eduard escaped from exile in 1947–50 and were officially released in 1955.

Works:

Kriminālprocesa īpatnības Vidzemē un Kurzemē 15–18 gadsimteņos. Rīga, 1936. (The Particularities of Criminal Procedure in Vidzeme and Courland in the 15th–18th Centuries, Riga, 1936.)

Livonijas karalis Magnuss. Rīga, 1937. (Magnus, King of Livonia, Riga, 1937.)

ЛА 326-327