Levit (Lewit) Mozus (Mosus) Leonidovich
(born 5 May 1921, Riga) — electroplater, maintenance worker.
After completing the 1st Riga Municipal Jewish School, Mozus Levit worked from 1936 to 1937 as an apprentice in the haberdashery shop of M. Royak. From 1937 to 1939 he was an apprentice in H. Libesman’s electrical goods shop; in 1939–40 he worked as a fitter in A. Gelfand’s radio-electrical workshop, and in 1940–41 as a fitter at Plant No. 464 of the People’s Commissariat of the Aviation Industry.
In 1941–42, while evacuated, Mozus Levit worked as a labourer at the kolkhoz Lenin yul (Karakul Rural Council, Bukhara District). After military training in the Gorokhovets camps, he fought from 1942 to 1944 on the front as part of the 192nd Rifle Regiment of the Latvian Division. He held the rank of sergeant and was seriously wounded in the head by an explosive bullet.
From 1944 to 1948 he served as storekeeper of the Ludza District Military Commissariat; from 1948 to 1958 he was head of the warehouse of the Administrative and Economic Department of the Republican Military Commissariat of the Latvian SSR. From 1958 to 1962 he worked as an electroplater at the Omega factory, and from 1962 to the 1970s as an electroplater at the metalworking plant Sarkana planeta.
Mozus Levit was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the medals For the Victory over Germany, For Valiant Labour, and 20 Years of Victory over Germany. He became a member of the CPSU in 1951 and was expelled in 1964 for failure to pay membership dues.
In 1947 he married Gesya Zelikovna Levit (née Druyan).
Children:
Lev Mikhailovich Levit (born 1949, Riga)
Maliya Mikhailovna Nadel — daughter
Parents:
Leonid Moiseevich Levit (1888, Ula, Vitebsk Guberniya – 1943) — died in a concentration camp
Guta Mikhailovna Levit (1898, Arkhangelsk – 1942) — perished during the German occupation
Siblings, all perished during the German occupation:
Basya Leonidovna Levit (1923, Riga – 1942)
Hasya Leonidovna Levit (1927, Riga – 1942)
Mara Leonidovna Levit (1936, Riga – 1942)