Levi (Lewy) Otto Yulyevich (1 June 1911, Vienna) — driver.

Otto Levi was born into a large family of an Austrian civil servant. After completing eight years of secondary school, Levi began working in a jewellery workshop while simultaneously attending craft courses. During the unemployment crisis of 1928, he enrolled in mechanics courses. In 1932 Levi completed driver training courses and worked as a driver-mechanic in Vienna until 1938.

In 1938, after the occupation of Austria, Levi fled the country and arrived in Riga in September 1938, where he was employed in temporary jobs. In 1940 he was hired as a mechanic at the Sarkanā Zvaigzne factory in Riga. In June 1941, as a member of the Workers’ Guard, he was mobilised for security service and assigned to an escort group for railway transport in the Soviet rear. He worked as a tractor and combine operator at the Borovka state farm in Kirov Region. In 1941 he joined the Latvian Division. He fought near Moscow, was wounded, and was sent to Gorky. After recovering, he worked as a brigade leader and fitter in the mines of Pokrovsk, Kemerovo Region.

In 1944 Levi returned to Riga. In 1945–48 he worked as a driver and mechanic in the bottling department of the Riga Alcohol and Vodka Factory. In 1948, by order of the Riga OVIR, he moved permanently to Tukums. In 1948–49 he was a driver in the Progress artel in Tukums. In 1949 Levi obtained Soviet citizenship. In 1949–58 he worked as a fitter at the Riga Liqueur and Vodka Factory.

In his marriage to Malka Meerovna Levi (née Goldblat) (1919, Kremenchug), the children Yarden Levi (1946, Riga) and Karmella Levi (1949, Riga) were born. In 1958 Otto Levi and his family received permission to emigrate to the Federal Republic of Germany and to obtain West German citizenship.

Family:

— Malka Meerovna Levi (née Goldblat) (1919, Kremenchug) — wife
— Yarden Levi (1946, Riga) — son
— Karmella Levi (1949, Riga) — daughter