Lubotsky (Lubotzky) Pinkhus (Pinchus) Azrielovich (15 April 1908, Rēzekne) — procurement officer.

Pinkhus Lubotsky completed nine classes of the Jewish school in Rēzekne. In 1925–41 he worked as a sales clerk for the firm Augļu Eksports in Riga. In 1941 he was evacuated to Glazov, Udmurt ASSR, where he worked as a procurement agent in the mechanical workshops of a brick factory. Mobilised in 1942–45, he worked on construction projects of the People’s Commissariat for Construction as head of the Workers’ Supply Department (ORS). In 1945 he became head of procurement at OSU-14 of the same commissariat.

In 1945–46 he worked for the Meat Industry Trust of the Latvian SSR as head of sales, shop director and goods specialist. In 1946 he served as director of a small-scale retail base. In 1947 he was head of procurement in the Pishchevik (Food Industry Worker) artel. In 1947–48 he chaired the organising bureau of the Partika artel. In 1948–49 he was technical manager in the Adu Galanterija artel. In 1950–53 he was technical manager in the Dzīmtēne artel, after which he became head of the trade and production department in the Sadarbība artel of the Union of Disabled Persons’ Cooperatives.

In 1953–54 he served as head of a workshop in the Stalin District Industrial Combine of Riga. In 1954–55 he was head of the sewing workshop in the Ogre District Industrial Combine. In 1955–56 he managed the confectionery workshop of the Šiauliai Municipal Trade Organisation. In 1956–57 he headed the confectionery workshop at Canteen No. 1 of the Riga Catering Trust, and in 1957–59 — at Canteens Nos. 3 and 12. In 1959 he was a storekeeper at the Luna café in Riga. In 1960 he was production manager of the culinary workshop of the Jūrmala Trade Department. In 1960–61 he headed the confectionery workshop at the Tallinn Restaurant in Riga. In 1962–63 he served as warehouse manager at the Riga branch of the ORS department of the Mosgazprovodstroi Trust. In 1963–65 he was a goods specialist at the Riga base of Glavkoopkulttorg. In 1966–68 he worked as an engineer at the Central Design and Technology Bureau Zapryba. In 1968–69 he was head of the equipment department of the Mosgazprovodstroi Trust in Norilsk. In 1969–70 he worked as a storekeeper at Canteen No. 27 of the Proletarsky District Catering Trust in Riga. From 1970 he was an insurance agent for the Lenin District of Riga.

He was awarded the medals “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–45” and “Veteran of Labour.”

During the Holocaust, Lubotsky’s parents — Azriel Lubotsky (1863, Vidzy, Belarus — 1941, Riga) and Sora-Leia Lubotskaia (Iminitova) (1866, Rēzekne — 1941, Riga) — as well as his brothers Natan (1892–1941, Riga), Ilia (1894–1941, Riga) and his sister Musya Kan (Lubotskaia) (1904, Rēzekne — 1941, Viesīte) were killed.

In his marriage to Rakhil Segal (Lubotskaia) (1910, Kārsava) two daughters were born: Fruma Rapoport (Lubotskaia) (1929, Kārsava — 1973, Riga) and Bella Levant (Lubotskaia) (1939, Riga).

In 1980 Pinkhus Lubotsky received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Rakhil Segal (Lubotskaia) (1910, Kārsava) — wife
Fruma Rapoport (Lubotskaia) (1929, Kārsava — 1973, Riga) — daughter
Bella Levant (Lubotskaia) (1939, Riga) — daughter
Azriel Lubotsky (1863, Vidzy, Belarus — 1941, Riga) — father
Sora-Leia Lubotskaia (Iminitova) (1866, Rēzekne — 1941, Riga) — mother
Natan Lubotsky (1892, Rēzekne — 1941, Riga) — brother
Ilia Lubotsky (1894, Rēzekne — 1941, Riga) — brother
Musya Kan (Lubotskaia) (1904, Rēzekne — 1941, Viesīte) — sister