Mirnik Khaim (Chaim) Izrailevich (16 September 1909, Riga) – shoe-maker.

From 1925 to 1932, Khaim Mirnik studied shoemaking and was an apprentice at a private shoe factory in Riga. From 1932 to 1941, he worked at the Rosental leather goods factory. In 1933, M. served in the Latvian Army for nine months. After the war began, he was evacuated with his family to Tashkent. In 1942, M. was repressed and in 1943 convicted by a Special Council (fully rehabilitated in 1962). He served his sentence in Aktobe, continuing to work in his profession. In 1947, M. returned to Riga and worked as a procurement agent in Riga shoe cooperatives and enterprises.

In his first marriage to Mirnik Peri, which ended in divorce in 1948, Mirnik had two sons: Izrail (1935) and Tuvia (1942), both of whom lived and worked in Riga in the 1960s. Mirnik's brother and sisters, Mikhail Mirnik(1908), Bluma Barmazel (Mirnik) (1905), Ella Dubovoy (Mirnik) (1914) and Khaya Band (Mirnik) (1916), lived in Riga in the 1960s. His second wife, Feodosia Lyakhova (1928), a native of Poland, left for her homeland in 1964. In 1966, Khaim Mirnik received permission to move to Poland to join his wife.

Family:

Feodosia Lyakhova (1928) – second wife

Izrail Mirnik (1935) – son

Peri Mirnik (date of birth unknown) – first wife

Tuvia Mirnik (1942) – son

Mikhail Mirnik (1908) — brother
Bluma Barmazel (Mirknik) (1905) — sister
Ella Dubovoy (Mirknik) (1914) — sister
Khaya Band (Mirknik) (1916) — sister