Nadel Silim Borukhovich (born 27 June 1924, Preiļi) — trade worker.
From 1940 to 1941, Silim Nadel worked as a tinsmith at a toy factory in Riga. In 1941–1942, he was evacuated and worked as a tractor driver at the Malmysh Machine and Tractor Station (village of Kalinina, Kirov Oblast). From 1942 to 1947, he served in the active army: in 1942, as a private in the 1st Separate Latvian Reserve Regiment; in 1942–1944, as a sapper in a sapper battalion; in 1944–1945, as a private in a special platoon of the 286th Rifle Regiment of the Latvian Division; in 1945–1946, as a driver in a separate motor transport company of the 53rd Rifle Division; and in 1946–1947, as a driver in the 1102nd Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion.
From 1947 to 1948, he worked as a procurement agent for the agricultural cooperative “Varpa” (Preiļi). Between 1948 and 1952, he was manager of Shop No. 6 of the Preiļi Consumers’ Society. In 1951, he moved from Latvia to Kansk (Krasnoyarsk Krai) to reunite with his family (wife and child). From 1952 to 1953, he worked as a salesman at the Sotnikovo Workers’ Cooperative (Kansk), and from 1953 to 1958 at the Filimonovo Workers’ Cooperative (Kansk).
In 1958, he completed eight grades at the Ingash Evening School (Krasnoyarsk Krai), and in 1958–1959 attended advanced training courses at the Soviet Trade Technical College (Abakan, Krasnoyarsk Krai). From 1959 to 1967, he worked as a commodity specialist at the Workers’ Supply Department of the Dolgomostovsky Timber Industry Enterprise (Kansk). In 1967, he returned to Latvia with his family. From 1967 to 1982, he was employed as a salesman at Shops Nos. 26 and 28 of the Lenin District Food Trade Organisation in Riga.
Silim Nadel was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medals For Military Merit, For the Victory over Germany, Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Fifty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR, and Sixty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR. A member of the CPSU from 1943, he was expelled from the Party in 1951 in connection with his marriage to the daughter of a shopkeeper.
Since 1948 (the marriage was officially registered in 1950), he was married to Gita Zalmanovna Nadel. Their son is Boris Silimovich Nadel. Their daughter, Musya Silimovna Lyak (born 1950, place unknown), emigrated to Israel with her family in 1981 (Be’er Sheva).
His parents, four brothers, and six sisters were murdered by the Nazis in 1941. His father was Borukh Mendelevich Nadel (1890, Preiļi – 1941, Preiļi), and his mother Musya Abramovna Nadel (née Shkolnik) (1896, Preiļi – 1941, Preiļi). His brothers were Girsh Borukhovich Nadel (1926–1941), Elya Borukhovich Nadel (1930–1941), Faivish Borukhovich Nadel (1932–1941), and Peisakh Borukhovich Nadel (1938–1941), all born and killed in Preiļi. His sisters were Malka Borukhovna Skutelskaya (1920–1941), Rokhl Borukhovna Nadel (1922–1941), Dveira Borukhovna Nadel (1928–1941), Khaya Borukhovna Nadel (1934–1941), Khaiperla Borukhovna Nadel (1936–1941), and Beila Borukhovna Nadel (1940–1941), all born and killed in Preiļi.