Munits (Munitz) Lev (Lew) Alexandrovich (5 December 1912, Kreslavka [Kraslava]) — watchmaker.
In 1915 Lev’s parents moved from Kreslavka (Kraslava) to Sebezh, Pskov Province, where Munits completed seven grades of school in 1926. From 1930 to 1937 he was an apprentice watchmaker and later a watchmaker for a children’s organization. In 1937–1939 he worked as a watchmaker in a cooperative (artel) in the town of Krichev; in 1939–1941 he worked in an artel in the town of Klimovichi, Mogilev Province, BSSR.
When Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, he was evacuated with his family to the town of Isfara, Tajik SSR, where from 1941 to 1945 he worked as a watchmaker in the artel “Sitoroi Surkh.” In 1945 he moved to Krasnovodsk (now Turkmenbashi), Turkmen SSR. From 1945 to 1949 he worked as a watchmaker in an artel for the disabled. In 1949 he moved with his family to the town of Kizlyar, Dagestan ASSR, where in 1949–1954 he worked as a watchmaker at an industrial combine.
From 1954 to 1959 he worked as a watchmaker in the workshop of the North Caucasus Railway (ShCh-8), from 1959 to 1964 in a consumer services workshop, and from 1964 to 1966 in a consumer services workshop in the stanitsa Shelkovskaya, Grodno Province. From 1966 to 1969 he worked as a watchmaker in a consumer services workshop in the Dagestan ASSR, and from 1969 to 1979 at the Department of Workers’ Supply (ORS) of the North Caucasus Railway in Kizlyar.
In 1979 he moved to Riga, where in 1980–1981 he worked as a watchmaker at the Riga atelier “Elektron” in Jurmala (Kauguri). From 1981 he was retired. He made several unsuccessful attempts to obtain permission to emigrate to Israel.
In 1937 in Sebezh he married Roza Mikhailovna Gurevich (1915, Sebezh, Pskov Province [or 1916, Opochka, Pskov Province?] — 1987, Riga). The marriage was dissolved in Riga in 1982. They had four daughters and one son:
Galina Lvovna Belkina (née Munits) (1941, Klimovichi, Mogilev Province, BSSR — ?) — translator at a travel bureau, insurance agent of the State Insurance Inspectorate of Riga’s Proletarsky District; in 1979 emigrated with her family from Riga to Israel and later moved to the USA for permanent residence.
Svetlana Lvovna Ziskovich (née Munits).
Rimma Lvovna Krumer (née Munits).
Emma Lvovna Gershbein (née Munits) (1956 [1957?], Kizlyar, Dagestan ASSR — ?) — music worker at the “Zhuravushka” kindergarten in Riga; in 1989 emigrated from Riga to the USA for permanent residence.
Boris Lvovich Semenov (Munits) (1952, Kizlyar, Dagestan ASSR — ?) — electrician at Housing Maintenance Office No. 77 in Riga; vocalist of the Leningrad Maly Opera House.
Father: Aleksandr Lvovich Munits (1882, Dinaburg [Dvinsk, Daugavpils] — ?, Sebezh, Pskov Province) — worker in dry-cleaning and dyeing workshops.
Mother: Sheina-Dveyra Izrailevna Munits (née Ikhilchik) (1886, territory of Lithuania — ?, Sebezh, Pskov Province).
Brothers:
Israel Aleksandrovich Munits (1918, Dvinsk [Daugavpils] — ?, Leningrad [St. Petersburg])
Shaon Aleksandrovich Munits (1923, Sebezh, Pskov Province — ?, Leningrad [St. Petersburg])
Iosif Aleksandrovich Munits (1925, Sebezh, Pskov Province — ?, Leningrad [St. Petersburg])
Sister:
Emma Aleksandrovna Munits (1920, Daugavpils — ?, Leningrad [St. Petersburg])
Munits’s parents were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War. His brothers and sister died during the Siege of Leningrad.