Milshtein (Milstein) Mordukh (Morduch) Davidovich (2 August 1908, Daugavpils) — worker.

Mordukh Milshtein was born in Daugavpils. In 1922, his family moved to Riga. From 1925 to 1927, he worked as an apprentice in the leather goods workshop “Saks” in Riga. Between 1927 and 1940, he was employed as a worker at the Riga firm of Yakov Liberman. From 1940 to 1941, he worked at the Riga artel “Kommunar.”

From 1942 to 1944, Milshtein served in the Soviet Army. After sustaining a severe wound, he was evacuated to Tashkent, where in 1944–1945 he worked as a labourer at Tashkent Factory No. 84. After returning to Riga in 1945, he worked as a foreman at the industrial combine of DORURS of the Latvian Railway. From 1953 to 1956, he was a brigade leader in the artel “Spars,” and from 1956 to 1960, a foreman in the artel “Adu Galantereya.” Between 1960 and 1966, he worked as a labourer at the leather goods combine “Somdaris.”

He was awarded the medal “For Victory over Germany.”

During the Second World War, Milshtein suffered severe family losses. His brothers Abram Milshtein (1905–1940) and Bentsion Milshtein (1914–1940) were killed at the front. His father, David Milshtein (date of birth unknown–1941), was murdered in the Riga Ghetto. One of his sisters died during the war years in the Chuvash ASSR. His brother Arie Milshtein (b. 1926) lived and worked in Israel in the 1960s.

In 1966, Mordukh Milshtein left Latvia.

Family:

Taube Milshtein (née Adler) (1914) — wife
David Milshtein (d. 1941) — father
Basya Milshtein (d. 1920) — mother
Abram Milshtein (1905–1940) — brother
Arie Milshtein (b. 1926) — brother
Bentsion Milshtein (1914–1940) — brother
Rivka Pitul (née Milshtein) (1899) — sister
Mera Zorde (née Milshtein) (1902–1942) — sister
Beila Teitelreut (née Milshtein) (1911–1960) — sister