Lurie Luis Borisovich (22 October 1922, Buenos Aires, Argentina) — electrician.

In 1922 Luis’ parents went to Buenos Aires to earn a living; in 1927, owing to his father’s illness, they returned to Latvia and lived in Liepāja and Valka. From 1932 the family lived in Riga. In 1936 Luis Lurie completed six classes of the 10th Riga Jewish School, and in 1940 qualified as an electrician after graduating from the Riga Jewish Vocational School. In 1941 he took up employment with the NKAAP construction and installation trust. At the beginning of the war he was evacuated together with his family to Kuibyshev and later transferred to Kazan, where he worked as an electrician with the Kazan Central Electrical Installation Administration. He was forced to leave his job because of an industrial injury sustained in 1942.

In 1942 he was mobilised into the labour army in Kazan and demobilised a month later for health reasons. That same year he moved to the Alma-Ata Region, where he was mobilised for work in the coal mines of Karaganda. In 1943, in Karaganda, Luis Lurie was convicted under the decree of 26 June 1940 for a disciplinary offence and sentenced to four months of individual compulsory labour. From 1943 he worked as a stoker at the Telegraph House in Karaganda. In 1944 he again worked in the coal mines and, as a result of an accident, sustained a second industrial injury, which mutilated his right hand. He was recognised as a Group II invalid (later reclassified as Group III).

After the war Luis Lurie returned to Riga. Until 1946 he worked at the First Riga Hydroelectric Power Station. From 1946 to 1948 he was an electrician at the Riga Zinc and Lead Paints Factory; from 1948 to 1949 he worked as an electrician for Latvenergo. Subsequently he worked as an electrician at the “Myasomolmash” plant and in the “Remont” artel, and as a galvaniser at the industrial combine of the Lenin District of Riga, as well as in the “Elektro” and “Liesma” artels. From 1960 to 1965 he worked in the electroplating shop of a jewellery factory.

Lurie’s father, Barukh Yuda Lurie (1896–1940), an employee of the Riga Parquet Factory, failed to evacuate at the beginning of the war and was imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto. According to information received by L. from a former ghetto inmate, Grigory Levin, his father perished in 1941.

From the 1920s Lurie’s paternal uncles — Mikhail, Hanan and David Lurie — lived in Israel, having left Latvia in search of employment. In 1965 L. left Latvia.

Family members:

Hanna (Levinshtein) Lurie (1894) — mother

Barukh Yuda Lurie (1896 – 1940) – Father

Zalman Lurie (1928) — brother
Polina (Melamed) Lurie (1935) — wife
Mark Lurie (1960) — son