Plotke Zalaman (Salman) Bentsionovich (31 August 1924, Riga) - employee
Zalman Plotke was born into the family of Bentsion Sheftelevich Plotke (1890, Riga – 1942, Burnoye station, South Kazakhstan Region) and Maria Zalmanovna Plotke (née Sominskaya) (1891–1974, Riga), a housewife.
In 1965, he graduated by correspondence from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.
During the Second World War he worked at a collective farm in South Kazakhstan Region (1941–1942), served in the Soviet Army, and fought at the front (1942–1944). He was awarded the medals “For Courage” and “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.” He studied at the 2nd Moscow Machine-Gun School and the Leningrad Rifle and Sniper School (1944–1946), then continued service in the Soviet Army (1946–1948, Valga, Estonian SSR).
After demobilizationZalman Plotke worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in Riga (1948–1953), was a fitter/installer at the VEF plant (1953), head of the personnel department of the Avangard combine (1953–1954), and managed the party library of the Smiltene District Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia (1954–1955). He later worked as a director of a bookshop (1956–1966), head of the administration of “Latvkolkhozstroysnab” (1966–1977), and subsequently as a carpenter at a self-financing repair and construction unit of Latvian State University (1978–1979).
He married Lea Bentsionovna Plotke (née Berzon) (born 1925, Riga). They had a daughter, Benita Zalamanovna Berelovich (née Plotke) (born 1949, Riga).
In 1979, Zalman Plotke received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1972 his sister Lea Bentsionovna Band (née Plotke) (born 1929, Riga) had been living. He later emigrated to Australia.
Family:
Bentsion Sheftelevich Plotke (1890–1942) — father
Maria Zalmanovna Plotke (née Sominskaya) (1891–1974) — mother
Ilya Borisovich Plotke (born 1916, Kharkiv) — brother
Lea Bentsionovna Band (née Plotke) (born 1929) — sister
Lea Bentsionovna Plotke (née Berzon) (born 1925) — wife
Benita Zalamanovna Berelovich (née Plotke) (born 1949) — daughter