Mandelkorn Leiba Aryevich (25 August 1901, Jelgava) — commodities specialist.
In 1918, Leiba Mandelkorn obtained a qualification as a trade worker after graduating from the Jelgava Trade School and until 1920 worked as a shop assistant at the Veide shop. From 1920 to 1922, he completed military service in the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Latvian Army in Riga. From 1923 to 1940, he worked as a commodities specialist at the wholesale firm “Hirshman and Sherman” in Jelgava. From 1940 to 1941, he was employed as a commodities specialist at the Jelgava Food Industry Trade Directorate.
In 1941, he was evacuated to the village of Dzhambay in the Uzbek SSR. Until 1942, he worked as head of the warehouse of the Dzhambay District Consumers’ Union; from 1942 to 1944, he served as head of the warehouse of Farhadstroy in the stanitsa of Khimkovo, Uzbek SSR. In 1944–45, he served in the Soviet Army as a private, rifleman of the 359th Reserve Regiment in Vyshny Volochyok. In 1945, he returned to Latvia and worked as manager of a shop of the River Fleet Workers’ Supply Department in Riga.
From 1946 to 1950, he managed a buffet, storeroom and warehouse at the Riga Trust of Canteens, Restaurants and Cafés. In 1951, he worked as head of the warehouse of the Jūrmala Butter Factory and as head of the “Rīgas Jūrmala” ice-cream base at the Riga Dairy Combine. In 1951–52, he served as head of the warehouse of the Artek Children’s Sanatorium in Jūrmala and as head of the workshop of the Artistic and Production Workshops of the Riga Theatre Society. From 1952 to 1955, he worked as a senior commodities specialist at the Latlegsnabsbyt base. From 1955 to 1976, he was employed as a forwarding agent at the “Rīgas Manufaktūra” Textile Combine. From 1976, he was retired on grounds of age.
He was married to Sara (Sherman) Mandelkorn (1914, Jelgava); their daughter was Liya Mandelkorn (1947, Riga).
Father: Adolf (Arye) Mandelkorn (1859–1912), born and buried in Jelgava.
Mother and sisters: Shora (Ber) Mandelkorn (1863–1941(?)), Yuhanna Mandelkorn (1895–1941(?)) and Beti Veide (née Mandelkorn) (1893–1941(?)) — perished during the German occupation of Jelgava.
In 1977, Leiba Mandelkorn received permission to leave Latvia.
Family:
Sara (née Sherman) Mandelkorn (1914, Jelgava) — wife
Liya Mandelkorn (1947, Riga) — daughter
Mere-Khane (Meri-Khana) Hirshovich (née Mandelkorn) (1899, Jelgava) — sister
Adolf (Arye) Mandelkorn (1859, Jelgava — 1912, Jelgava) — father
Shora Mandelkorn (née Ber) (1863, Jelgava — 1941(?), Jelgava) — mother
Yuhanna Mandelkorn (1895, Jelgava — 1941(?), Jelgava) — sister
Beti Veide (née Mandelkorn) (1893, Jelgava — 1941(?), Jelgava) — sister