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Levitan Abram Aronovich (1910)

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NameAbram
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Birth year1910
birth_placeLiepaja
SexM

Levitan (Lewitan) Abram Aronovich (1910, Liepaja) – lawyer.

Abram Levitan was born into a family of civil servants. In 1936, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Latvia. In 1948–50, he attended lectures at the Evening University of Marxism-Leninism. In 1951, he passed the minimum requirements for a candidate degree.

After completing compulsory military service in the 1930s, he worked as a clerk in a Liepaja lawyer's office until 1940. In 1940, he was a candidate for a judicial position in the Liepaja District Court and was accepted in December 1940. In 1941, he was appointed a member of the Gulbene District Court. In 1941, he was evacuated to Stalingrad with the rest of the court and worked as a bailiff at the Stalinabad Regional Administration of the NKJU. In 1941, he was drafted into the army and served in the active army until 1945 (123rd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 43rd Division). He was demobilized in November 1945.

Abram Levitan was awarded the medals “For Military Merit” and “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.”

After demobilization, he worked in the LSSR Prosecutor's Office, performing the duties of a prosecutor in the investigation department. In 1946-49, he worked as deputy director of the LSSR State Library. In 1949-52, he was a senior lecturer in legal disciplines at the Riga Officer School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1953, he was admitted to the Riga Regional Bar Association and sent to work at the Riga 4th Legal Consultation Office. An employee of the Riga 2nd Legal Consultation Office, in 1971-74 he worked regularly with patients at the Medical and Labor Preventive Care Center, explaining civil legal relations to alcoholics undergoing treatment, for which he received personal commendation. In 1983, Abram Levitan retired due to old age.