Nakhimovsky (Nachimowsky) Itzhok Zalmanovich (13 August 1897, Daugavpils) — optician, photographer.
Itzhok Nakhimovsky was the son of Zalman Nakhimovsky (1862, Poland – 1941, Daugavpils) and Sara Nakhimovskaya (1858, Poland – 1931, Daugavpils). In 1915 he graduated from the Daugavpils Commercial School. During the First World War he was evacuated to Russia. From 1915 to 1918 N. attended classes at a Real School in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1918 he returned to Daugavpils. In 1921 he completed three courses at the Faculty of Mechanics of the University of Latvia.
From 1921 to 1940 he worked as an optician in private workshops in Daugavpils. From 1940 to 1941 he was an accountant in a shoemakers’ artel in Daugavpils. In 1941 he was evacuated to Kirov Oblast, from where he moved to the town of Yangiyul in Tashkent Oblast. Until 1945 he worked as a photographer in the Babayev Artel of the Disabled. In 1945 Itzhok Nakhimovsky returned to Latvia. Until 1949 he served as assistant manager of photographic workshops of the ORS of the Riga Flour-Milling Combine and the ORS of the Military Construction Administration of Riga.
From 1949 to 1958 he worked as a photographer at the Riga Industrial Combine of Voentorg and at the Riga House of Naval Officers. From 1961 to 1968 he was a worker at the “Ausma” factory. From 1968 he was a pensioner.
In marriage with Gesya Nakhimovskaya (née Zeyger) (1906, Daugavpils – 1978, Riga) two children were born: Abram Nakhimovsky (1932, Daugavpils) and Zara Nokhimovskaya (1934, Daugavpils). During the Holocaust His father and his sister, Raina Arsh (née Nakhimovskaya) (1881, Daugavpils – 1941, Daugavpils), were murdered.
His brother, Leiba Nakhimovsky (1889, Daugavpils – 1968, Florida), emigrated to the United States in 1902. His sister, Berta Belok (née Nakhimovskaya) (1902, Daugavpils), was imprisoned in the Daugavpils ghetto in 1941, where her husband and children were murdered; she herself was deported to a concentration camp in Germany and, after liberation, emigrated to the United States, where she lived in Detroit. Another brother, Nokhum Nakhimovsky (1894, Daugavpils – 1968, Uruguay), emigrated to South America in 1928. His brother, Veniamin Nakhimovsky (1887, Daugavpils – 1970, Riga), lived and worked in Latvia in the postwar years.
In 1978 Itzhok Nakhimovsky received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of his niece, Nechama Perlova (née Nakhimovskaya) (1925, Riga).
Family:
Gesya Nakhimovskaya (née Zeyger) (1906, Daugavpils – 1978, Riga) — wife
Abram Nakhimovsky (1932, Daugavpils) — son
Zara Nokhimovskaya (1934, Daugavpils) — daughter
Zalman Nakhimovsky (1862, Poland – 1941, Daugavpils) — father
Sara Nakhimovskaya (1858, Poland – 1931, Daugavpils) — mother
Raina Arsh (née Nakhimovskaya) (1881, Daugavpils – 1941, Daugavpils) — sister
Veniamin Nakhimovsky (1887, Daugavpils – 1970, Riga) — brother
Leiba Nakhimovsky (1889, Daugavpils – 1968, Florida) — brother
Nokhum Nakhimovsky (1894, Daugavpils – 1968, Uruguay) — brother
Berta Belok (née Nakhimovskaya) (1902, Daugavpils) — sister
Nechama Perlova (née Nakhimovskaya) (1925, Riga) — niece