R. Baruch Eliezer son of R. Menachem Mendel Luria
Riga
Born in 5656 (1896), to his father who served in the rabbinate in settlements in the district of Yekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk), in Rostov-on-Don, and in the town of Lyady.
He studied at the Mir yeshiva.
He served in the rabbinate in the town of Pogost near Slutsk and in the city of Novo-Borisov in White Russia.
In 5693 he emigrated to Riga and was appointed by R. Zak, chief rabbi of Riga, as chief supervisor of kashrut.
He served as rabbi of the Beit Midrash congregation Malbish Arumim on Perses Street 16.1)
He perished in the Holocaust.
Yahadut Latviya, p. 396. She'ar Yosef, vol. 3, in the introduction, p. 14. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 234.
Latvia and Rabbis