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R. Aharon Shekhna son of R. Shlomo Yehuda Leib Platzinsky

Borovka / Antonopol

Born on 18 Shevat 5670 (28 January 1910) in the town of Vishki, to his father who was the rabbi there (and of the area of Plan Chadash (Pletzer) in Dvinsk).

He studied at yeshivas in Riga and in Slobodka.

Son-in-law of his uncle R. Tzvi Hirsch Yemini, rabbi of the town of Vilani (Vilon) in Latgale.

He served here as rabbi from the year 5692 (1932).1)

He also served concurrently as rabbi of the nearby community of Malta (in 1936 the 2 towns were merged).

From the year 5700 (1940) he filled his father-in-law's place in the rabbinate of Vilani.

Torah novellae from him were published in the monthly Knesset Yisrael (Nisan 5698, Kislev 5700, Nisan 5700), and in the pamphlet Zekher Avot at the end of the book Shalom Yehuda.

He perished in the Holocaust in Vilani together with the members of his community in the summer of 5701 (1941).

Yahadut Latviya, p. 408. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 237. Pinkas HaKehillot, p. 1182.2)

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
In the newspaper Unzer Shtime, issue no. 27 from the month of Shevat 5692, a report appears that this week at the meeting of the committee for spiritual affairs at the Ministry of the Interior, Rabbi Platzinsky was appointed as rabbi of Antonopol. But in Pinkas HaKehillot it is written that he was appointed in 1929, and in Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim – in the year 1931.
2)
There on p. 72 it is written that the prayers in the town were conducted according to a compromise formula devised by the Gaon of Rogatchov between Hasidim and Mitnagdim, and all prayed together in one synagogue.