Lubel Abram Gershovich (20 December 1925, Koltso, Białystok Voivodeship) — unskilled labourer.
In 1938 Abram Lubel completed five years of schooling and entered a Jewish religious seminary. In the same year he was living under occupation with his grandfather in the town of Ostrołęka, Poland. In 1941, for illegally crossing the state border of the USSR, he was sent to Koshise (?) in Siberia. With the outbreak of the war, he was amnestied as a Polish citizen and went to the town of Osh, where until 1944 he worked on a collective farm and as a cart driver in the Kazhgarkyshlak Rural Council.
In 1944 he volunteered for service in the Soviet Army and was later transferred to a labour battalion. He was demobilised in 1947, remained in Riga, and worked as a cobbler at Construction Directorate No. 1 of Glavneftegazstroy. In 1947–50 he was seconded to the Riga Dock, and later worked as a carpenter at a woodworking combine. In 1950–52 he was treated in a psychiatric hospital. Until 1957 he was registered as a Group I–II invalid; in 1958 a medical commission recognised him as a Group III invalid.
In 1958–59 he worked in the office of “Torgmortrom” LTM II; in 1961 he was a loader at a wool primary-processing factory belonging to the administration of the Ministry of Local Economy of the Latvian SSR (LPSMKh) ; in 1961–62 he worked at the “Sarkanā Planēta” factory as an auxiliary worker of the first grade in the fittings section; in 1962 he worked in the Gardens and Parks Trust of the city of Riga in the green construction department; in 1963 at a children’s toy factory as an auxiliary worker; until May 1964 he was a loader at the “Dzintars” factory; and in 1964 a loader at Canteen No. 75. In February 1965 he again underwent treatment in a psychiatric hospital. In 1965 he applied for permission to emigrate to Israel.
In 1946 he married Dveira Nisonovna Lubel (née Boyar). The marriage produced two sons and a daughter: Genokh Abramovich Lubel, Grigory Abramovich Lubel (11 April 1954, Riga ), and Sima Abramovna Lubel (16 December 1956, Riga ). On 22 July 1960 he married for the second time, to Eva Elievna Lubel (née Feldman). The marriage was dissolved on 20 November 1962.
His father, Hersh Lubel (Koltso, Białystok Voivodeship — ?), worked as a cart driver and was killed in a ghetto in Poland. His mother, Miryam Shabsovna Lubel (1886, Koltso, Białystok Voivodeship — ?), also perished in a ghetto in Poland. His brothers were: Isaak Gershovich Lubel (1910, Koltso, Białystok Voivodeship — 1943, Białystok), who graduated from a Jewish religious seminary and was killed in the Białystok ghetto in 1943; and Berl Gershovich Lubel (1921, Koltso, Białystok Voivodeship — ?), who also graduated from a Jewish religious seminary, worked as a carpenter, and from 1948 lived in Israel.
From 1914, his two maternal uncles, a paternal aunt, and two paternal uncles lived in the United States, having emigrated from Poland. Cousins lived in Argentina. From 1937, a cousin and other relatives on his grandfather’s side lived in Israel.